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.
- 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.
ChinaDeepSeekArtificial IntelligenceJohn MoultonRamaswamy