{"id":75378,"date":"2025-02-02T14:43:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T14:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/deepseek-lights-a-fire-under-silicon-valley\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T14:43:50","slug":"deepseek-lights-a-fire-under-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/deepseek-lights-a-fire-under-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek lights a fire under Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

DeepSeek, DeepSeek, DeepSeek (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/28\/deepseek-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-ai-chatbot-app\/<\/a>) . We couldn\u2019t escape the headlines around the Chinese AI lab this week. The startup — which claims to have built its models more efficiently and at a fraction of the cost of competitors — lit a fire under Silicon Valley after releasing its R1 \u201creasoning\u201d model and displacing ChatGPT (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/27\/deepseek-displaces-chatgpt-as-the-app-stores-top-app\/<\/a>) as the App Store\u2019s top app. <\/p>\n

Today, on TechCrunch\u2019s Equity (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcasts\/equity\/<\/a>) podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Margaux MacColl and Max Zeff are digging into the latest news, including the reactions from both tech giants and the U.S. government, which is increasingly concerned that China is pulling ahead in the AI arms race.<\/p>\n

Listen to the full episode to also hear about:<\/p>\n

\u2022
\n Tesla earnings (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/29\/on-tesla-earnings-day-all-eyes-are-elon-profits-and-ai\/<\/a>) — from promises made to robotaxi updates, and questions left unanswered. Don\u2019t worry, Kirsten brought her bingo board if you want to play along.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nucleus Genomics\u2019 $14 million raise (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/30\/controversial-genetics-testing-startup-nucleus-genomics-raises-14m-series-a\/<\/a>) for DNA sequencing and analysis.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 The demand for fusion, and Helion\u2019s $425M raise to build its own fusion reactor for Microsoft (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/28\/helion-raises-425m-to-help-build-a-fusion-reactor-for-microsoft\/<\/a>) .<\/p>\n

Equity has a special DeepSeek deep dive on the way for those who want more, so stay tuned!<\/p>\n

Equity is TechCrunch\u2019s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Subscribe to us on (https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1215439780<\/a>) Apple Podcasts (https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1215439780<\/a>) , Overcast (https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1215439780\/equity<\/a>) , Spotify (https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5IEYLip3eDppcOmy5DmphC?si=rZDFHv2sQUul_g94iCRgpQ)<\/a> and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X (https:\/\/twitter.com\/EquityPod<\/a>) and Threads (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 (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcasts\/equity\/<\/a>) .<\/p>\n

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’ll talk to you next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DeepSeek, DeepSeek, DeepSeek (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/28\/deepseek-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-ai-chatbot-app\/) . We couldn\u2019t escape the headlines around the Chinese AI lab this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75394,"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-75378","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\/75378","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=75378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}