Yanis Varoufakis on Cloud Capital vs AI DeepSeek, Technofeudalism, Capitalism a
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Yanis Varoufakis, on behalf of DiEM25, provides an end-of-month review for January 2025, focusing on the impact of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company. He explains that DeepSeek, China's answer to OpenAI's ChatGPT-4, offers its AI models for free, making money by selling developer services at a fraction of OpenAI's prices. Varoufakis argues that DeepSeek's emergence, which quickly became the most downloaded app on the Apple Store, caused significant losses in US big tech stock market capitalization by shifting the AI landscape from proprietary to open-source technology. He asserts that AI's underlying code was always open source, and American AI became a commodity by training models on vast amounts of 'stolen' privatized data. While DeepSeek has severely damaged companies like OpenAI, which offer commodified AI services, Varoufakis contends that 'Cloud Capital' (like Amazon Alexa), which functions as a means of behavioral modification rather than a commodity, remains unchallenged. He concludes that capitalism is dying at the hands of Cloud Capital, giving way to 'technofeudalism,' which is further fueling a new Cold War between the US and China. Varoufakis also notes that DeepSeek's success has shattered America's perceived AI lead over China, drawing parallels to the Sputnik moment, and speculates on the political reactions in Washington D.C. and Silicon Valley.
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