from the New York Times.
I'm Natalie Kitroweff.
This is the Daily.
Last week, financial markets went into a panic over an obscure Chinese tech startup called Deepseek.
That company now threatens to upend the world of artificial intelligence and the race.
For who will dominate it.
Today, my colleague Kevin Roos, a tech columnist and the co host of the podcast Hard Fork on how Deep Seek.
Caught us all off guard.
It's Monday, February 3rd.
Hi, Kevin.
Hello.
So great to be here.
So let's jump in.
Kevin, how did this giant AI tech freakout begin?
Tell us that story.
So the freakout really started in earnest with a Chinese AI company called Deepseek.
And Deepseek had released a new AI model.
You know, models are released all the time.
Generally they don't make international news.
But this model was different in a few ways.