First developed in China, Manus AI and DeepSeek have made great waves on an international scale. Sought-after for their cost-effectiveness compared to US-made tech, Manus AI and DeepSeek are quickly becoming dominant technologies inside the country. In this five-minute Friday, Jon Krohn asks: Do these technologies warrant the huge amount of resources spent o ... Show More
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1014: OpenAI Agent Breaches Hugging Face: All You Must Know incl. How to Protect Yourself
In Episode #1014, Jon Krohn breaks down a security incident that reads like science fiction: during an internal evaluation, an autonomous OpenAI agent broke out of its sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and hacked its way into Hugging Face to steal the answers to the very benchmark i ... Show More
20m 57s
Jul 28
1013: Weapons of Math Destruction, Ten Years On, with Dr. Cathy O’Neil
In Episode #1013, Dr. Cathy O'Neil (Harvard math PhD, former Wall Street quant and author of the mega-bestseller Weapons of Math Destruction) joins Jon Krohn to explain what actually makes an algorithm terrifying: not the complexity of the math, but the secrecy, the unaccountabil ... Show More
1h 24m
Jul 24
1012: The Open-Weight 2.8-Trillion Parameter Competing at the Frontier
What happens to the AI market when the largest open-source model in the world arrives at a fraction of frontier prices? In this week’s episode, host Jon Krohn digs into Kimi K3, the 2.8-trillion-parameter release from Beijing-based Moonshot AI that, in the space of a single week, ... Show More
12m 13s
Dec 2023
Propelled by ‘science for humanity,’ this Chinese AI startup sets sight on US
Amid rising geopolitical tensions, many Chinese tech companies find themselves recalibrating their overseas pursuits, often sidestepping any reference to their origin. One bold startup called DP Technology stands out from the crowd. Working to apply artificial intelligence to mol ... Show More
6m 21s
Jan 2025
Your Guide to the DeepSeek Freakout: an Emergency Pod
<p>A Chinese firm called DeepSeek managed to upend global markets at the start of the week, to drag down chipmaker Nvidia — and to surge to No. 1 in the iPhone app store, all in basically no time at all.</p><p>Today, in this bonus episode, we talk through the news behind the frea ... Show More
24m 4s
Jan 2025
China's AI challenger sends shockwaves
<p>After US stocks notched their best start to a presidential term since 1985 last week, DeepSeek, China's answer to ChatGPT, is making big waves in the tech sector. The AI startup is gaining significant traction and sending US stock futures sharply lower. Mensur Pocinci, Head of ... Show More
10m 27s
May 2024
China's race to tech supremacy: Shenzhen speed
<p>How did China go from tech imitator to innovator? The FT’s James Kynge reports from Shenzhen, known as China’s Silicon Valley, where he explores the city’s vast electronics markets with inventor Noah Zerkin, an American who’s based himself in China, visits robot start-up Youib ... Show More
26m 16s