3 policy lessons from the DeepSeek panic

Jonathan Barnett February 12, 2025

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Launch of the DeepSeek chatbot has delivered a wake-up call for U.S. policymakers. While the “breakthrough” now appears to have been overstated (total expenditures have been estimated in excess of $1 billion, rather than $6 million as originally claimed, and DeepSeek may have had greater access to advanced chips than previously believed), even skeptics recognize that DeepSeek achieved cost-efficiencies that incumbents must now match. Hence OpenAI’s early release of its o3-mini model in late January 2025.

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