DeepSeek

The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity

by Tim Wu  · 4 Nov 2025  · 246pp  · 65,143 words

high-performance graphic processing units (GPUs) and that GPT-4 required over 10,000 petaflop/s-days.[14] (That said, the debut of China’s DeepSeek in 2025 suggested LLMs might be built with fewer computing resources.) And of course, at the frontier, you needed talent. Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel

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emotional intimacy or companionship. But emotions are irresistibly powerful drivers of business models, and it seems reasonable to imagine that a firm like Google or DeepSeek may find itself tempted to make subtle but deliberate efforts to cultivate bonds between us and our robot helpers. * * * — We have largely dwelled on the

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, 159–71, 173–74 Chamberlin, Edward, 137 Charles River Bridge, Boston, 168–69 chatbots, 20, 88, 90, 101 Anthropic, 99 ChatGPT, 94–95, 98–99 DeepSeek, 94–95, 101 ELIZA, 90 Grok, 79, 99 LLaMA, 99 Replika, 100–101 Chavez, Hugo, 124, 155 Chicago School of Antitrust, 27, 30 China, 13

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, 68, 85–88 The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jacobs), 19 Deep Blue computer, 92 deep learning, AI, 93–94 DeepMind firm, 98 DeepSeek chatbot, 94–95, 101 de Garton, Ms., 162–63 Denmark, land ownership in, 127–29 dependence, 72, 140 convenience vs., 80 emotion-based, 100–102

The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump: What the Trade War Means for the World

by Philip Coggan  · 1 Jul 2025  · 96pp  · 36,083 words

June 2024, ourworldindata.org/data-insights/solar-panel-prices-have-fallen-by-around-20-every-time-global-capacity-doubled 53 David Pierson and Berry Wang, ‘DeepSeek is a win for China in the A.I. race. Will the party stifle it?’, The New York Times, 2 February 2025, nytimes.com/2025

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/02/02/world/asia/deepseek-china-ai-censorship.html 54 Rogier Creemers and Louise Marie Hurel, ‘Limits of economic deterrence in the US–China tech competition’, RUSI, 14 March 2025

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

by Jacob Silverman  · 9 Oct 2025  · 312pp  · 103,645 words

that the United States seemed at risk of losing. While Silicon Valley was floundering, their competitors in China shocked the world with the release of DeepSeek, an AI model reportedly as strong or better than its Western counterparts, made at a fraction of the cost. China’s BYD was also producing

The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (And Who Benefits)

by Maximilian Kasy  · 15 Jan 2025  · 209pp  · 63,332 words

years. It is this scale that enables transformers to effectively store a compressed copy of the entire internet. (Recent successes of the Chinese AI company DeepSeek suggest that this scale might be reduced somewhat without loss of performance.) Figure 6 The size of large language models Source: Wikipedia, “Large Language Model

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

by Cory Doctorow  · 6 Oct 2025  · 313pp  · 94,415 words

. It gave us the TikTok ban, and it’s giving America’s bloated, overcapitalized AI giants political cover as they attack nimbler Chinese rivals like DeepSeek. Antitrust is global, but it’s especially powerful in the United States, thanks to a mix of both government and private action. While I was