DeepSeek
Mentioned in 79 analyzed podcast episodes across 10 shows
A Chinese AI company that has achieved near-parity with U.S. frontier models through breakthroughs in cost-efficient AI implementation, advanced reasoning capabilities, and open-source model releases—despite operating under significant chip export restrictions. DeepSeek has generated substantial podcast discussion for unexpectedly emerging as a competitive threat to American AI labs, triggering market reactions and sparking broader conversations about global AI capability distribution and the effectiveness of export controls on AI development.
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Episode Mentions
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Apr 11, 2026
SpaceX Goes Public, Claude’s Mythos Release, and the US Data Center Delay | EP #246
“V4 model released at 10-50x cheaper cost than GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.6; Chinese frontier lab”
Elon Musk Podcast · Apr 10, 2026
Meta abandons open source for Muse Spark
“International competitor that utilized Meta's open-source Llama weights to accelerate internal research, motivating Meta's proprietary shift”
CNBC's "Fast Money" · Apr 8, 2026
Markets Rally on U.S.-Iran Ceasefire… Delta Pops, Alibaba Bounces, and Banks in Focus 4/8/26
“Chinese AI startup releasing V4 model entirely on Huawei chips after months of code rewriting with Huawei engineers”
A Beginner's Guide to AI · Apr 7, 2026
Why ChatGPT Isn’t Enough for Real Business Automation - with Ethan Ouyang
“Chinese AI company mentioned as a top-tier large language model provider competing with US-based models”
The a16z Show · Apr 3, 2026
Marc Andreessen on AI Winters and Agent Breakthroughs
“Chinese open-source AI model company; praised as 'gift to the world' for publishing reasoning techniques”
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Apr 3, 2026
Marc Andreessen introspects on The Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
“Chinese AI model company; example of open-source as loss leader strategy for domestic paid services”
How I Invest with David Weisburd · Apr 1, 2026
E338: How I Invest $9 Billion into VC & Private Equity
“Made major AI announcement in early 2025, exemplifying ongoing AI model competition and disruption threat”
Daily Tech News Show · Mar 31, 2026
Popular JavaScript Package Axios Gets Compromised - DTNS 5237
“Mentioned as potential competitor that could benefit from analyzing Anthropic's leaked source code”
Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 23, 2026
#494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution
“Chinese AI company; mentioned as example of open-source AI innovation and competitive advantage in China's tech ecosystem.”
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Mar 19, 2026
Zvi's Mic Works! Recursive Self-Improvement, Live Player Analysis, Anthropic vs DoW + More!
“Chinese AI company discussed as test case for whether non-Western companies can catch up to frontier models”
Practical AI · Mar 9, 2026
AI policy and the battle for computing power
“Chinese AI company demonstrating algorithmic innovation despite chip constraints”
Letters from an American · Feb 27, 2026
February 26, 2026
“Chinese AI startup that trained its models on NVIDIA's advanced chips, highlighting technology transfer concerns”
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) · Feb 26, 2026
AI Trends 2026: OpenClaw Agents, Reasoning LLMs, and More with Sebastian Raschka - #762
“Featured prominently for R1 reasoning model and V3 architecture influencing industry direction”
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Feb 26, 2026
[LIVE] Anthropic Distillation & How Models Cheat (SWE-Bench Dead) | Nathan Lambert & Sebastian Raschka
“Chinese AI lab mentioned as using Anthropic's API for distillation, though at lower volumes”
PBD Podcast · Feb 25, 2026
Trump's State of the Union + Supreme Court Tariff Troubles | PBD #746
“Chinese AI lab accused by Anthropic of industrial-scale distillation attacks on Claude model outputs”
Pod Save the World · Feb 25, 2026
508: Countdown to War With Iran?
“Chinese AI company developing advanced models with NVIDIA chips despite U.S. export restrictions”
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast · Feb 25, 2026
George Conway & Rep. Robert Garcia
“AI competitor that created 24,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Anthropic's Claude model capabilities through distillation attacks”
TBPN · Feb 24, 2026
Kim K's New Energy Drink, Citrini Discourse Rages On, the $100B Meta-AMD Deal | Diet TBPN
“Responding to Distillgate controversy by hiring public relations harmony manager”
TBPN · Feb 24, 2026
Citrini Memo Reactions, Kim K Enters Energy Drinks, Jane Street Sued | Patrick & John Collison, Bill Gurley, James Cadwallader, Scott Wu, Ivan Zhao, Stefano Ermon, Rune Kvist, Reiner Pope, Devansh Pandey
“Center of distillation controversy and upcoming model release speculation”
Daily Tech News Show · Feb 24, 2026
Citrini's Substack Post Sent the Market Into a Panic - DTNS 5212
“Chinese AI firm accused by Anthropic of conducting coordinated distillation attacks on Claude”
Digital Disruption with Geoff Nielson · Feb 23, 2026
LLMs in 2026: What’s Real, What’s Hype, and What’s Coming Next
“Highlighted for 2025 breakthrough with reinforcement learning and verifiable rewards; released DeepSeek v3 and reasoning model”
My First Million · Feb 20, 2026
From selling ACs to becoming the tourism king of Jamaica
“Chinese AI company that outperformed OpenAI models despite limited chip access, product of Genius Program”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Feb 18, 2026
OpenAI Acquires OpenClaw, 400x Cost Collapse, & Why India Wins the Talent War | EP #231
“Chinese open-weight model; rumored next version will achieve parity with American closed frontier models”
Animal Spirits Podcast · Feb 18, 2026
Is AI a Mistake? (EP. 452)
“AI company that allegedly stole/replicated competitor models; discussed regarding AI company moats”
MacBreak Weekly (Audio) · Feb 18, 2026
MBW 1012: Joining the YOLO Club - Apple's Special Experience Event on March 4th
“Chinese AI company providing open-weight models; mentioned as example of non-US AI innovation”
Last Week in AI · Feb 16, 2026
#235 - Opus 4.6, GPT-5.3-codex, Seedance 2.0, GLM-5
“Released updated model with 1M token context window and sparse attention architecture used by other companies”
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Feb 14, 2026
Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 2, w/ Abhi Mahajan, Helen Toner, Jeremie Harris, @8teAPi
“Chinese AI company whose CEO publicly stated export controls were limiting their AGI development”
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Feb 13, 2026
Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 1, w/ James Zou, Sam Hammond, Shoshannah Tekofsky, @8teAPi
“Latest model addition to AI Village, showing high confidence but flat personality traits”
AI For Humans: Making Artificial Intelligence Fun & Practical · Feb 13, 2026
Seedance 2.0 Is Peak AI Video. We Tested It. Send Help.
“Chinese AI company referenced as precedent for competitive moment; had major impact ~1 year ago”
The a16z Show · Feb 10, 2026
Marc Andreessen: Who Runs the World’s AI?
“Chinese AI company that surprised both US and China with competitive model, sparking Chinese open source race”
TBPN · Feb 10, 2026
FULL INTERVIEW: Bill Bishop Thinks China’s Military is Still Deeply Corrupt
“Chinese AI company expected to launch new model, reportedly training on restricted chips”
十字路口Crossing · Feb 8, 2026
Vibe Coding 下半场：四大天王，和想赢的人｜对话朱广翔：百度秒哒产品总经理
“国内AI模型公司，推动了COT和思维链等技术的应用”
Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley · Feb 6, 2026
This VC Bought Bitcoin at $200, Saw TikTok's Rise, and Now Says THIS is the Next Big Trade
“Chinese open-source AI model company that relocated to avoid US sanctions while maintaining global accessibility”
Last Week in AI · Feb 6, 2026
#233 - Moltbot, Genie 3, Qwen3-Max-Thinking
“Releasing competitive open-source models; compared against Qwen3-Max-Thinking on benchmarks”
十字路口Crossing · Feb 1, 2026
他看到的未来，和我们有什么不一样？| 对话18岁的涂津豪：DeepSeek 前实习生、阿里数竞 AI 组冠军
“Guest interned at DeepSeek during R1 launch; discussed team culture, model capabilities, and lack of celebration despite global attention”
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) · Jan 29, 2026
The Evolution of Reasoning in Small Language Models with Yejin Choi - #761
“Discussed extensively for R1 model used in synthetic data generation and reasoning research”
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jan 29, 2026
Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet
“Chinese AI lab that rapidly replicated US model capabilities, challenging assumption of US dominance”
The a16z Show · Jan 29, 2026
Marc Andreessen on Why This Is the Most Important Moment in Tech History
“Chinese AI company that emerged unexpectedly to match capabilities of American AI labs”
Practical AI · Jan 27, 2026
How is AI shaping democracy?
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Jan 23, 2026
Inside America's AI Strategy: Infrastructure, Regulation, and Global Competition
The a16z Show · Jan 22, 2026
Inferact: Building the Infrastructure That Runs Modern AI
The AI Policy Podcast · Jan 22, 2026
The Future of Nvidia’s H200 in China and the Pentagon's New AI Strategy
“Chinese AI company represented in AGI summit panel; seeking H200 access amid export controls”
Last Week in AI · Jan 21, 2026
#231 - Claude Cowork, Anthropic $10B, Deep Delta Learning
“Released MHC hyperconnection paper and conditional memory lookup paper; R1 model narrowed US-China gap; founders warned about chip constraints”
This Day in AI Podcast · Jan 19, 2026
2026 Existential Crisis, Claude Code Hype & Is SaaS Dead? EP99.30-WIZARDS
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis · Jan 15, 2026
ChatGPT 5.5 Coming Soon?
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Jan 14, 2026
Bringing AI to Data: Agent Design, Text-2-SQL, RAG, & more, w- Snowflake VP of AI Baris Gultekin
The Artificial Intelligence Show · Jan 13, 2026
#190: ChatGPT Health, Audience Reactions to AGI, Claude Code Use Cases, xAI Raises $20B & Big Gmail AI Updates
“Chinese AI model capturing 3.5% of global generative AI traffic share alongside Grok”
Tech Brew Ride Home · Jan 9, 2026
Grok Still Groking
“Planning V4 model launch around Lunar New Year in mid-February with breakthroughs in long-context coding”
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Jan 9, 2026
AMA Part 1: Is Claude Code AGI? Are we in a bubble? Plus Live Player Analysis
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Jan 9, 2026
Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
“Chinese AI model referenced as subject of Commerce Department analysis comparing to U.S. AI capabilities”