{"id":75348,"date":"2025-02-01T14:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T14:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/deepseek-separating-fact-from-hype\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T14:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T14:51:23","slug":"deepseek-separating-fact-from-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/deepseek-separating-fact-from-hype\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek: separating fact from hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we\u2019re bringing you a bonus episode zeroing in on DeepSeek (<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/28\/deepseek-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-ai-chatbot-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/28\/deepseek-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-ai-chatbot-app\/<\/a>) , the Chinese AI lab <!--more--> that\u2019s recently taken over the news and the app stores (<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/27\/deepseek-displaces-chatgpt-as-the-app-stores-top-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/27\/deepseek-displaces-chatgpt-as-the-app-stores-top-app\/<\/a>) , beating out OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT. Max Zeff is talking about it all with Ion Stoica (<a href=\"https:\/\/people.eecs.berkeley.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/people.eecs.berkeley.edu\/<\/a>~istoica\/) , Professor of Computer Science Division at UC Berkeley and the cofounder and executive chairman of software startup Databricks.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full episode to hear more about:<\/p>\n<p>  \u2022  Why Stoica believes the future of AI lies in &#8220;doubling down on open source.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  \u2022  Microsoft&#8217;s decision to host DeepSeek on Azure.<\/p>\n<p>  \u2022  What the U.S. can do to foster accelerated innovation \u2013 with a look back at SB-1047 (<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/09\/29\/gov-newsom-vetoes-californias-controversial-ai-bill-sb-1047\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/09\/29\/gov-newsom-vetoes-californias-controversial-ai-bill-sb-1047\/<\/a>)  and a look ahead to 2025.<\/p>\n<p>  \u2022  The controversy surrounding claims that DeepSeek used OpenAI\u2019s models (<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/29\/microsoft-probing-whether-deepseek-improperly-used-openais-api\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/29\/microsoft-probing-whether-deepseek-improperly-used-openais-api\/<\/a>)  to train its own.<\/p>\n<p>Equity will be back next week, so stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>Equity is TechCrunch\u2019s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts (<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1215439780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1215439780<\/a>) , Overcast (<a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1215439780\/equity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1215439780\/equity<\/a>) , Spotify (<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5IEYLip3eDppcOmy5DmphC?si=rZDFHv2sQUul_g94iCRgpQ)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5IEYLip3eDppcOmy5DmphC?si=rZDFHv2sQUul_g94iCRgpQ)<\/a>  and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EquityPod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/EquityPod<\/a>)  and Threads (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.threads.net\/<\/a>@equitypod) , at @EquityPod. For the full episode transcript, for those who prefer reading over listening, check out our full archive of episodes here (<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcasts\/equity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcasts\/equity\/<\/a>) .<\/p>\n<p>Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. We\u2019d also like to thank TechCrunch\u2019s audience development team. Thank you so much for listening, and we&#8217;ll talk to you next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we\u2019re bringing you a bonus episode zeroing in on DeepSeek (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/28\/deepseek-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-ai-chatbot-app\/) , the Chinese AI lab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}