A Chinese artificial intelligence model known as DeepSeek caused a shake-up on Wall Street Monday. The AI model has raised concerns over China’s ability to manufacture cutting-edge artificial intelligence.
Daniel Cochrane, a senior research associate for the Tech Policy Center at The Heritage Foundation, joined The Daily Signal’s “Top News in 10” podcast to explain what DeepSeek is and whether it should be seen as a threat to the U.S.
Listen to Cochrane’s comments on the podcast below or read the lightly edited transcript.
Virginia Allen: What exactly is DeepSeek? What do we know about it?
Daniel Cochrane: So, DeepSeek is what’s called a large language model, and large language models are essentially AI that uses machine learning to analyze and produce a humanlike text. So, if you think about, in the American context, we have LLMs like…
