Engadget Podcast: DeepSeek blows up the AI world

Within the span of every week, the Chinese language startup DeepSeek has fully disrupted the AI panorama with its free and "open supply" R1 mannequin. On this episode, Devindra, Engadget Senior Reporter Igor Bonifacic and Producer Ben Ellman dive into what makes R1 so particular, and what DeepSeek is doing otherwise from OpenAI and different opponents. Additionally, we strive to determine what’s up with “Incention,” a bizarre AI/blockchain undertaking for creating new Hollywood IP, and marvel if Helion’s fusion reactor is definitely legit.

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Matters

  • DeepSeek’s R1 mannequin shakes up the AI panorama – 1:55

  • Fast point out: Sam Rutherford’s Galaxy S25 evaluate “An excessive amount of AI, not sufficient Extremely” – 30:19

  • Incention is proof that blockchain nonsense is alive and properly – 37:16

  • Fusion startup Helion has Altman and Thiel on its aspect, however perhaps not physics – 42:50

  • Google agrees to rename Gulf of Mexico on U.S. model of its maps – 49:19

  • Engaged on – 50:07

  • Popular culture picks – 51:32

Credit

Hosts: Devindra Hardawar and Igor Bonifacic
Producer: Ben Ellman
Music: Dale North

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