Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president, told the FT that the rapid adoption of Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek’s technology in emerging markets such as Africa underscores the competition American firms face around the world.
His comments come as new research from Microsoft found that the release of DeepSeek’s R1 large language model a year ago helped accelerate the uptake of AI worldwide, particularly in the global south, due to its “accessibility and low cost”.
That has also led to China overtaking the US in the global market for so-called “open” AI models, which are often free to use, modify and integrate by developers.
“Race”
they mean the race to the bottom. just as pointless as the race to have the most nukes 50+ years ago.
Right, so DeepSeek proved that you can make slop more efficiently and at a lower cost than what the American companies are doing, which obviously is a threat to the massive amounts of money that they’re pretending to throw around. If you can make it more efficient you won’t need billions for data centres, or trillions for GPUs.
So I can see how this is a problem for Big Slop.
Die mad about it.
Define winning—cause if it isn’t generating vast amounts of bullshit hallucinations, then Brad Smith is talking out of his poop hole.
Don’t care, I don’t think many do care
More AI is not winning
Some uncontacted tribe in the Amazon is currently winning the AI race.
I guess it’ll fuck them over soon enough anyway.
It might be playing with fire, but it’d be funny if a prankster petitioned the Trump admin to approve a data center on North Sentinel Island.
He needs to go there personally to break ground though.
Hate to break it to you but that is not what Amazon AI is.
I’d imagine because AI in China isn’t a massive for-profit cult propped up by technofascists with speculative values greater than the combined GDP of entire countries who have basically seized political power and are now running amok.
China is many things but they are not stupid. Handling AI the way the west has would be an extreme threat to their own authority and control.
China is definitely stupid about something, but “let’s.join the current USA bubble” doesn’t seem to be it.
And if anyone wants to know why American tech companies are gavaging us with AI, why NVIDIA and Micro$oft are “begging” us to stop talking shit about AI, this is why. It’s another tech race.
