How DeepSeek V4 Connects to the US Power Grid
4/27/202625 min
Today's episode connects two stories that look unrelated on the surface — the White House invoking the Defense Production Act around US grid infrastructure, and DeepSeek's long-awaited V4 release. Together they point to a single conclusion, that energy has become the real frontline of the US-China AI competition. In the headlines: Google commits up to $40 billion to Anthropic, the AI trade roars back as hyperscalers push markets to new highs, and Nvidia becomes the first $5 trillion company.
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Today on the AI Daily Brief, DeepSeek releases their latest model, and we're discussing what it has to do with the White House invoking the Defense Production Act around the US electric grid. Before that, in the headlines, the AI trade is back, and Google plans to invest up to forty billion dollars in Anthropic. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. [upbeat music] All right, friends, quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors: Assembly, Blitzy, Granola, and Superintelligent. To get an ad-free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you wanna learn more about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. And before we get into the show, I did also want to flag that we are now live with our latest free self-directed training program, Agent OS. This is a program to help you build your personal agentic operating system. It's similar in some ways to Claw Camp, but this is going to be platform neutral and designed to create a system that can evolve over time as the technology changes as well. Now, if you wanna learn more about this, on Saturday, I did an operator's bonus episode with Nufar Gaspar, who created this program, so go check that out, and then you can sign up for Agent OS. You can find the link from aidailybrief.ai and join the more than a thousand people who have already signed up for this thing in the first day or so. With that out of the way, let's dive in. [beeping] Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief headlines edition, all the daily AI news you need in around five minutes. Late last Friday saw just an absolute slew of stories, including