Join this conversation as we unpack the science, politics, and future of AI in this exciting and insightful episode!In this episode ofAI Conversations: Africa in Focus, I dive into one of the most significant developments in the AI landscape — the release of the DeepSeek model series.

This revolutionary model has achieved reasoning capacities comparable to OpenAI's O1 model series but at a fraction of the computational cost. I explore the innovative techniques behind this breakthrough, the implications for the future of AI, and how this could make training language models on consumer GPUs a reality.

In this episode, I also discuss the global reactions to this disruption, including OpenAI's response, Nvidia's market shock, and the European Union’s surprising commitment of €54 million toward building large multilingual language models under the OpenEuroLLM project.

Join this conversation as we unpack the science, politics, and future of AI in this exciting and insightful episode!