Tech Check Take: AI's Distillation Problem - The Trillion Dollar Disruption

AI and Us: Exploring Our Future by Alberto Rocha

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Episode notes

Episode Description: This in-depth podcast explores the seismic shift occurring in the AI industry triggered by a technique called "distillation." The episode investigates how this revolutionary approach, first coined by AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton in 2015, is now threatening to upend the traditional AI power structure and causing massive market volatility.

Key Segments:

  1. The DeepSeek Phenomenon
  • Examining how a Chinese startup sparked a trillion-dollar tech selloff
  • Analysis of DeepSeek's achievement in creating competitive AI models for under $6 million
  1. Understanding AI Distillation
  • Detailed explanation of how smaller teams can extract knowledge from larger AI models
  • Case studies of successful distillation projects, including Stanford researchers creating  ... 
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