Companies in the tech sector are investing billions of dollars to stay ahead of the AI revolution. Nevertheless, a Chinese startup company that was established with relatively little funding appears to have stunned the market by being competent and even outperforming ChatGPT.
To learn more about Deep Seek, watch the video below.
Vocabulary Questions:
- Explain “a handful of something“. “…a handful of other US chip stocks many trading at 30 times earnings or more.” Create a sentence using this term.
- What does “wake up call” mean? “The release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company should be a wake up call.” Use this idiom to make your own sentence.
- What is the meaning of “over the edge“? “ DeepSeek can be used uncensored on it’s platform but what really sent investors over the edge is that DeepSeek it was able to build this model and train it at just a fraction of the cost.” Give two (2) synonyms or similar expressions and use ‘over the edge’ in your own sentence.
Discussion Questions:
- Have you heard anything about DeepSeek? What is your initial reaction to the Chinese startup AI company?
- How do you think DeepSeek questions the narrative of US tech giants supremacy, who have claimed supremacy in the AI race?
- Why was DeepSeek better than other popular models, such as open AIS, and other benchmarks?
- What made it possible to create such a proficient app with just a fraction of funding compared to other competitors with billions or even predicted trillions of dollars in funding?
- What are your thoughts on this statement: “I think that the US has spent a long time sort of underestimating China. China’s tech sector is actually very capable of innovating and creating these very powerful and very advanced products, and I think that Silicon Valley’s, you know, presumed lead that they have over China, I don’t think they should take that for granted.“