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Leaked DeepSeek transcript lays bare China’s compute bottleneck

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What's the one thing keeping China's top AI labs from catching their US peers? Compute. That's according to DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng, from a transcript of a May investor meeting that leaked on July 23. ICYDK: DeepSeek's cut-price, open-source models have made it China's AI standard-bearer, abl...