{"id":17589,"date":"2025-02-02T08:39:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T07:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/the-ai-business-model-is-built-on-hype-thats-the-real-reason-the-tech-bros-fear-deepseek-kenan-malik\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T08:39:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T07:39:27","slug":"the-ai-business-model-is-built-on-hype-thats-the-real-reason-the-tech-bros-fear-deepseek-kenan-malik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/the-ai-business-model-is-built-on-hype-thats-the-real-reason-the-tech-bros-fear-deepseek-kenan-malik\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI business model is built on hype. That\u2019s the real reason the tech bros fear DeepSeek | Kenan Malik"},"content":{"rendered":"

While privacy fears are justified, the main beef Silicon Valley has is that China\u2019s chatbot is democratising the technology<\/p>\n

No, it was not a \u201cSputnik moment\u201d. The launch last month of DeepSeek R1<\/a>, the Chinese generative AI or chatbot, created mayhem in the tech world, with stocks plummeting and much chatter about the US losing its supremacy in AI technology. Yet, for all the disruption, the Sputnik analogy reveals less about DeepSeek than about American neuroses.<\/p>\n

The original Sputnik moment came on 4 October 1957 when the Soviet Union shocked the world by launching Sputnik 1, the first time humanity had sent a satellite into orbit. It was, to anachronistically borrow a phrase from a later and even more momentous landmark, \u201cone giant leap for mankind\u201d, in Neil Armstrong\u2019s historic words as he took a \u201csmall step\u201d on to the surface of the moon.<\/p>\n

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\nWhile privacy fears are justified, the main beef Silicon Valley has is that China\u2019s chatbot is democratising the technology
\nNo, it was not a \u201cSputnik moment\u201d. The launch last month of DeepSeek R1, the Chinese generative AI or chatbot, created mayhem in the tech world, with stocks plummeting and much chatter about the US losing its supremacy in AI technology. Yet, for all the disruption, the Sputnik analogy reveals less about DeepSeek than about American neuroses.
\nThe original Sputnik moment came on 4 October 1957 when the Soviet Union shocked the world by launching Sputnik 1, the first time humanity had sent a satellite into orbit. It was, to anachronistically borrow a phrase from a later and even more momentous landmark, \u201cone giant leap for mankind\u201d, in Neil Armstrong\u2019s historic words as he took a \u201csmall step\u201d on to the surface of the moon. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While privacy fears are justified, the main beef Silicon Valley has is that China\u2019s chatbot is democratising the technology No, it was not a \u201cSputnik moment\u201d. The launch last month of DeepSeek R1, the Chinese generative AI or chatbot, created mayhem in the tech world, with stocks plummeting and much chatter about the US losing …<\/p>\n

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