Josh Chin (Colleague of the host) - Mentioned as a colleague who discusses the similarities between the US-Soviet Cold War and the current US-China AI competition.
Mark Andreessen (Silicon Valley venture capitalist) - Referenced as someone who called DeepSeek's achievement one of the most impressive he's ever seen.
Organizations & Institutions
OpenAI - The company that released ChatGPT, which significantly impacted the AI landscape.
Google - Mentioned as a company that promoted its own AI model after OpenAI launched ChatGPT.
Facebook - Launched its AI model, LLaMA, after OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Anthropic - Released its AI model, Claude, following the advancements by OpenAI.
Huawei - A major Chinese tech company that makes smartphones, wireless equipment, and is working on advanced chips to counter US restrictions.
Intel - An American chip company in which the Trump administration considered taking a stake.
Other Resources
ChatGPT - A generative pre-trained transformer chatbot released by OpenAI, capable of writing essays, philosophical questions, and even therapy. Its release significantly changed the AI landscape.
LLaMA - Facebook's large language model, launched after ChatGPT.
Claude - Anthropic's AI model, released after ChatGPT.
Sputnik satellite - Its launch by the Soviet Union in the 1950s is used as an analogy for how ChatGPT's debut spurred China's AI efforts.
DeepSeek - A Chinese artificial intelligence startup that developed a large language model almost as good as OpenAI's best model at the time, using less computing power and money.
CHIPS Act - Legislation under the Biden administration that pumped money into building chip factories in the US to boost domestic chip production.
