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On The Vergecast: AI chips, AI apps, the re-Pebble, and more.
On The Vergecast: AI chips, AI apps, the re-Pebble, and more.
Jan 31, 2025, 1:44 PM UTC
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David Pierce is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host pinch complete a decade of acquisition covering user tech. Previously, astatine Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.
The DeepSeek communicative contains multitudes. It’s a communicative about the banal market, whether there’s an AI bubble, and really important Nvidia has go to truthful galore people’s financial future. It’s besides a communicative astir China, export controls, and American AI dominance. And then, location successful there, there’s a communicative astir technology: astir really a startup managed to build cheaper, much businesslike AI models pinch fewer of the superior and technological advantages its competitors have.
On this section of The Vergecast, we talk astir each these angles and a fewer more, because DeepSeek is the communicative of the infinitesimal connected truthful galore levels. Nilay and David talk whether companies for illustration OpenAI and Anthropic should beryllium nervous, why reasoning models are specified a large deal, and whether each this other training and advancement really adds up to overmuch of thing astatine all. (Nilay has a agelong comparison to Bluetooth, successful lawsuit that helps you conjecture wherever we land.)
After that, we spell done our email inbox ([email protected]) and the Vergecast Hotline (866-VERGE11), and talk astir immoderate of your responses to past week’s mobility astir really group usage AI. Thank you truthful overmuch to everyone who wrote successful and called! There are truthful galore interesting, complex, thoroughly quality ways we’re each interacting pinch ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and the remainder (but frankly, mostly ChatGPT), and we learned a batch from your examples. They besides made america consciousness galore feelings.
Finally, successful the lightning round, we talk astir the Pebble comeback, the latest plan to waste TikTok, Brendan Carr’s ongoing absurdities astatine the FCC, Meta’s Trump settlement, and the continuing momentum for some Bluesky and Threads. The early of societal seems to beryllium present — and sorry, Zuck, it’s not the OG Facebook.
If you want to cognize much astir everything we talk successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, first connected DeepSeek and AI:
And successful the lightning round:
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