DeepSeek’s ‘Sputnik moment’ exposes holes in U.S. curbs on chip export

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DeepSeek’s ‘Sputnik moment’ exposes holes in U.S. curbs on chip export

For years many had assumed U.S. supremacy in AI was a given, with the field dominated by big Silicon Valley names like OpenAI and Facebook-parent Meta

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DeepSeek’s AI Breakthrough: China’s “Sputnik Moment” in AI?

The progress of artificial intelligence remains a major story in the early going of the second Trump presidency. Last week, Trump announced a new project called Stargate, which involved OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank announcing at a White House event that they would invest $100 million — and perhaps as much as $500 million over time—in […] The post DeepSeek’s AI Breakthrough: China’s “Sputnik Moment” in AI? appeared first on 19FortyFive.

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DeepSeek exposes the soft underbelly of Trump’s tech broligarchy

The United States has used sanctions since 2022 to try and stop China from acquiring advanced computer chips and the technology to manufacture them. However, this seems to have backfired, reports Peter Boyle.

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DeepSeek’s ‘Sputnik moment’ exposes holes in US chip curbs

For years, many assumed that the US would dominate in the field of artificial intelligence.

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DeepSeek has exposed America’s AI fiction

Everyone knows the old story about the space race: in the 1960s, Nasa needed to solve the problem of astronauts being able to write notes in space, so they spent millions developing a pen that could write in microgravity. The Soviets, the story goes, took pencils. Most people also know this isn’t true. Pencil shavings, in the high-oxygen atmosphere of a spacecraft, are a fire hazard. The space pen was developed by a private company and sold to N…

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Every so often, there is talk of a “Sputnik moment” in artificial intelligence: whether AlphaGo’s defeat of the ancient game of Go by champion Lee Sedol was China’s Sputnik moment, or whether DeepSeek’s R1 model is now America’s Sputnik moment. And there are sure to be more such episodes to come. A LOT OF SPUTNIKS The most recent “Sputnik moment,” which sent U.S. capital markets into a tailspin earlier this week, did not occur in a chronologica…