DeepSeek’s AI Power Stirs Silicon Valley’s Giants
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re focusing on DeepSeek’s significant progress in the U.S.; Elon Musk acknowledging his mistake regarding FSD; the decline in trust among teens towards Big Tech; and more! Let’s get started.
DeepSeek gained significant attention this week as its AI models prompted Wall Street analysts and technology experts to reconsider whether the U.S.
can uphold its dominance in the AI sector — and if the demand for AI chips will continue.
DeepSeek even asserts that its R1 “reasoning” model matches the performance of OpenAI’s o1 model on important benchmarks. There are numerous developments regarding DeepSeek, so we’ve compiled everything you need to know right here.
Perplexity is facing a lawsuit in federal court for supposedly violating another company’s trademark. Legal representatives for a firm named Perplexity Solved Solutions allege that Perplexity infringed upon its trademark rights by utilizing the name “Perplexity.”
The Texas-based company claims that the AI startup Perplexity began infringing on its trademark “around” August 2022 to promote its AI-driven search engine.
Google is implementing a “voluntary exit program” for employees in Android, Chrome, and Pixel this week, as stated in an internal memo from Google SVP Rick Osterloh. This voluntary severance initiative comes less than a year after Google consolidated the previously separate teams into a singular “Platform and Devices” division, managed by Osterloh.
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