DeepSeek and the US-China AI Race

When the Chinese company DeepSeek recently released an artificial intelligence model called R1, its surprisingly advanced capability and the efficiency with which DeepSeek claimed to have trained the model sparked a wave of discussion about how rapidly Chinese AI development was progressing. But how is the competition to achieve superior AI technologies between China and the United States shaping up? And, given that the governments of both countries envision important military applications of AI, what implications does this have for the broader US-China strategic competition? To explore these questions and more, John Amble is joined by Bill Hannas, lead analyst at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), and Sam Bresnick, a CSET research fellow. The MWI Podcast is produced with the generous support of the West Point Class of 1974.

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DeepSeek and the US-China AI Race is an episode from Modern War Institute by John Amble.

This episode is 00:48:44 long.

This episode was published on Feb 9, 2025.

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