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Stop worshipping the American tech giants
The arrival of DeepSeek shows us the competitive weaknesses of Silicon Valley titans.
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The writer says it should be no surprise that US big tech firms are at risk of being surpassed in AI innovation by foreign competitors.
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Lina M. Khan
When Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek shocked Silicon Valley and Wall Street with its powerful new AI model, Mr Marc Andreessen, the Silicon Valley investor, went so far as to describe it as “AI’s Sputnik moment”.
Presumably, Mr Andreessen wasn’t calling on the federal government to start a massive new programme like Nasa, which was our response to the Soviet Union’s Sputnik satellite launch; he wants the US government to flood private industry with capital, to ensure that America remains technologically and economically dominant.
