rant · moment 16 of 20

Apologizing to Vivek Over DeepSeek

from The D.C. Plane Crash & RFK’s Hearing | The Tim Dillon Show #429 · #429

4 min

He reflects that Vivek Ramaswamy's controversial comments about American laziness may have been vindicated by DeepSeek beating well-funded US tech firms, joking about apologizing to him over Indian food.

In this bit7 moments
  • The concern that if China leads in AI, their models will present a sanitized version of Chinese Communist Party history.
  • DeepSeek's release tanked the economy; the public now has to watch segments to understand why their portfolios got hammered and retirement disappeared.
  • DeepSeek is a Chinese AI model that narrowed the US-China gap in artificial intelligence, matching OpenAI and Google's capabilities for cheaper and faster.
  • Tim admits he got mad at Vivek Ramaswamy for saying Americans are lazy and can't do anything, but now owes him an apology.
  • American tech companies spent billions and years developing AI only to get publicly beaten by a small group working for a Chinese hedge fund manager.
  • Tim describes the defeated tech workers as top-tier people from Stamford, not amateurs from Long Island, yet they still lost to the Chinese team.
  • Vivek might be correct about American capability, warranting a dinner apology from Tim.
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ChinaDeepSeekArtificial IntelligenceJohn MoultonRamaswamy

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