Was DeepSeek Really China’s Sputnik Moment?
Simon Whistler · February 3, 2025 · 9 min video · China & Indo-Pacific
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Deepseek R1 is AI's sputnik moment. With those words posted to X, tech legend Mark Andreessen summed up an industry in crisis mode.
Just a case here, you've suffered a dramatic head injury and already forgotten that crisis was the stock market's reaction to China's Deepseek AI, a crisis that saw a trillion dollars wiped off the US NASDAQ 100 index and chip maker Nvidia suffering what Bloomberg called "the largest single-day route in stock market history." The cause of this route was the
Apparent ease with which Deepseek could manage to train an AI to rival anything America has yet produced.
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