“OpenAI’s Katrina Mulligan, who is working to foster closer ties between her company and military and intelligence officials, said DeepSeek stunned government and industry sources alike.”
She is full of it. She knows that all the big tech companies who develop AI are also selling the same tech to every country they can including China. Big tech is not loyal to the US, even if they are US owned companies. They absolutely cater to a global market with everything they do.
There are export restrictions. We’ve not been exporting AI processors (nVidia) to China. Some of it falls under I.T.A.R. laws. You can’t just export these technologies to whomever.
That said, DeepSeek is a different software approach, they’ve not developed their own chips to run it all on. It’s also open source, so you can run it on the powerful hardware anyway. For once, it gives us the ability to copy+1 on China. The other problem China has, DeepSeek neural training (from our models?) contains all kinds of content that is a nightmare for the CCP (free speech concepts, knowledge of outside cultures, law, religion, etc.). I’m hearing that the CCP want to “shut this thing up” as much as it is an advancement.
Put this altogether and it is a big yawn...in terms of China being ahead of everyone and keeping it that way.