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Callzone Media hi and welcome to the very first Better Offline Monologue.
This is gonna be a short weekly episode where I take a quick look
at something going on in the tech industry that doesn't quite warrant a full episode,
one might say.
They're like quick bites of content quibbies if you will.
And this is a business model that's proven successful time and time again.
This week I'm gonna give you a distilled rundown of a recent situation that rocked both the economy and the AI world.
For those of you that either need a refresher or rejected the notion of a two part pod, at the end of January,
something happened that radically overturned not just the AI industry's status quo,
but also called into question the dominance of the American tech industry.
Our story starts on January 20th when a little known Chinese company called deepseek released its R1AI model,
terrifying the Western tech behemoths that plowed over $200 billion combined into data centers
and industrial grade graphics processing units.