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Christiaan Hetzner

Marc Andreessen warns DeepSeek is ‘AI’s Sputnik moment’

Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, listens during the 2015 Fortune Global Forum in San Francisco, California (Credit: David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty Images)
  • DeepSeek’s reasoning model R1 not only destroys the myth that China can only copy the West, it may even be poised to eclipse it in the AI tech race.

China’s artificial intelligence breakthrough is shaking the foundation of the West’s dominance in this technological arms race, conjuring comparisons to one of the USSR’s greatest achievements.

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