🚀 Episode 11 Alert! David Shapiro hosts John Gibbs (CEO of Automattic, PhD, and host of Doctor Know It All) for an explosive discussion on DeepSeek-R1—the Chinese AI model rattling global markets and rewriting AI economics.
💥 In this episode:
- Why NVIDIA’s stock crashed 17% overnight
- Can a $5M open-source model outperform billion-dollar projects?
- Geopolitical chess: China’s AI surge vs. Western dominance
- The "Mozart Paradox": How constraints breed AI innovation
- Ethical minefields: Copyright, job displacement, and AGI’s looming shadow
🔍 John breaks down why synthetic data and self-play reinforcement learning could democratize AI, why Hollywood isn’t safe from disruption, and how leaders can navigate the AI arms race.
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