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Dario Amodei — On DeepSeek and Export Controls

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On DeepSeek and Export Controls

On DeepSeek and Export Controls January 2025 A few weeks ago I made the case for stronger US export controls on chips to China. Since then DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, has managed to — at least in some respects — come close to the performance of US frontier AI models at lower cost. Here, I won't focus on whether DeepSeek is or isn't a threat to US AI companies like Anthropic (although I do believe many of the claims about their threat to US AI leadership are greatly overstated) 1 . Instead, I'll focus on whether DeepSeek's releases undermine the case for those export control policies on chi

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