Seeking the Next DeepSeek: the Chinese Generative AI Algorithm Registry, with Kendra Schaefer

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It's going to be again the three of us, Andrew Polk and and Eric Olander and myself. This week on Seneca, I am thrilled to welcome back one of the smartest, clearest-eyed analysts of tech in China, Kendra Schaefer, head of tech policy research at Trivium China. Those of you who follow the show know that Seneca has been partnering quite closely with the team at Trivium. And today we get to showcase one of their standout pieces of recent work from one of their standout analysts. In January of this year, an AI startup called Deep Seek, of course, stunned the world by dropping a highly capable large language model that rivaled top-tier Western offerings.

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