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Board partner, Andreessen Horowitz · Jan 27, 2025 · Essay, DeepSeek Has Been Inevitable and Here's Why

It was either going to be a startup or someone outside the current center of leadership and innovation in AI, which is mostly clustered around trillion-dollar companies in the US.

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Said by: Steven Sinofsky, Board partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Where: DeepSeek Has Been Inevitable and Here's Why
Topics: Open-source, Startups
Company: Andreessen Horowitz
Source: hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/228-deepseek-has-been-inevitable

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