{"id":29584,"date":"2025-02-12T11:28:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T10:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=29584"},"modified":"2025-02-21T15:19:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T14:19:59","slug":"deepseek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2025\/02\/deepseek\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>B2 &#8211; Upper Intermediate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about Deep Seek, watch the video below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"How China\u2019s DeepSeek Came for Big AI\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zw-XrTmuirg?wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vocabulary Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What does &#8220;<strong>to spin out of a hedge fund<\/strong>&#8221; mean? &#8220;<em>DeepSeek is a Chinese AI startup that was formed in 2023 and <strong>spun out of a hedge fund<\/strong>.<\/em>&#8221; Use it in a sentence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What does &#8220;<strong>sidestep<\/strong>&#8221; mean? &#8220;<em>Just don&#8217;t ask it about Chinese politics. 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