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DeepSeek lights a fire under Silicon Valley | Equity Podcast

DeepSeek, DeepSeek, DeepSeek () . We couldn’t escape the headlines around the Chinese AI lab this week. The startup — which claims to have built its models more efficiently and at a fraction of the cost of competitors — lit a fire under Silicon Valley after releasing its R1 “reasoning” model and displacing ChatGPT ()…

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Today, on TechCrunch’s Equity () podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Margaux MacColl and Max Zeff are digging into the latest news, including the reactions from both tech giants and the U.S. government, which is increasingly concerned that China is pulling ahead in the AI arms race.

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Tesla earnings () — from promises made to robotaxi updates, and questions left unanswered. Don’t worry, Kirsten brought her bingo board if you want to play along.

• Nucleus Genomics’ $14 million raise () for DNA sequencing and analysis.

• The demand for fusion, and Helion’s $425M raise to build its own fusion reactor for Microsoft () .

Equity has a special DeepSeek deep dive on the way for those who want more, so stay tuned!

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@CydLeonard

January 31, 2025 at 12:58 pm

Tesla fouth quarter is a disaster and yall are not tell people. Also yall didn’t tell people part of Tesla’s income is in bitcoin.

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@CydLeonard

January 31, 2025 at 1:01 pm

Revenue down the road. Really

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@CydLeonard

January 31, 2025 at 1:01 pm

Elon is a fraud

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@CydLeonard

January 31, 2025 at 1:28 pm

The guy who did a Nazi salute will be America’s savior? You are out of your ducking mind.

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- @MarkMeszarosYNG
  
  January 31, 2025 at 4:35 pm
  
  I wonder how much ketamine he’s hopped up on before the presentation? He is just like Henry Ford if you look back in history Henry was a very big Nazi supporter! Check it out!
  
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@MarkMeszarosYNG

January 31, 2025 at 4:38 pm

I think you are right to have reservations FSD will never work for level 5!

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