Demis Hassabis says Chinese AI companies are about six months behind leading western labs and the response to DeepSeek's R1 in 2025 was a “massive overreaction”
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@bloomberglive
@bloomberglive
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Would @demishassabis be in favor of an AI pause to give society a chance to catch up? “I think so. I sometimes talk about setting up an international CERN for AI to figure out what we want from this technology.” @emilychangtv #BloombergHouse #WEF26 ⏯️ https://www.youtube.com/... …
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@bloomberglive
@bloomberglive
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On peer based collaboration within the AI community, “I think I am on pretty good terms with all the leaders in the leading labs.” @demishassabis @emilychangtv #BloombergHouse #WEF26 ⏯️ https://www.youtube.com/... [video]
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@andrewmayne
Andrew Mayne
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I don't have a strong view on the correct policy outcome, but I do think this analogy doesn't fit. China already has a domestic chip industry and is deploying capable AI models. Export controls don't stop that reality. The strategic rationale behind selling advanced chips
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@luke_metro
@luke_metro
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The official position of the US government is juicing tech company stocks. Think of that framing and everything makes sense
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@xlr8harder
@xlr8harder
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the only way this policy was remotely defensible was under a fast takeoff scenario, and we're not in a fast takeoff. this is just anticompetitive behavior as performative security theater. china is training on ascend now. you're just building nvidia's competitors.
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@benthompson
Ben Thompson
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You can't think about this issue in isolation, especially if you've decided you're now a national security expert https://stratechery.com/...
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@andrewcurran_
Andrew Curran
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Dario will be talking to the WSJ live in Davos in about an hour, but he's already caused a bit of a stir this morning. 'I think it would be a big mistake to ship these chips. ... If you think about the incredible national security implications of building models that are
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@conorsen
Conor Sen
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Would Anthropic have made it without the investment by SBF? I need more on that backstory.
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@benthompson
Ben Thompson
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Every time [image]
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@teortaxestex
@teortaxestex
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Twitching The vermin knows he has no other edge but muh scale learned that one trick in Baidu, never learned another
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@teknium
@teknium
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I'll compromise and say we can take them away, if they stop OSing frontier level models :)
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@cirnosad
Korobochka
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Dario is such an idiot. China blocked purchases of NVIDIA's overpriced chips.