January 28, 2025· 21 min

The AI Model That Tanked the Stock Market

Orality
Model
70%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(626 words)
M:94%
HostTracy Alloway(924 words)
M:28%
GuestZvi Mowshowitz(2,324 words)
M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic52%
literally, completely, very
Engagement59%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, right
Repetition100%
they (50x), know (33x), it's (30x)
Parallelism84%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., And then and then you know it'..., But just for, like, real scene...
Sound Patterns58%
26 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases9%
i mean, to be honest

Literate Indicators

Hedging14%
apparently, may, might
Passive Voice6%
be catalyzed, was trained, was trained
Abstract Nouns17%
investment, recommendation, correction
Subordination18%
though, although, because
Sentence Length38%
Avg: 14.6 words/sentence
Word Complexity46%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style41%
266 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
literally, completely, really

Description

On Monday, the stock market tanked, seemingly in reaction to the emergence of DeepSeek, an open source AI model developed in China. Nvidia, the semiconductor giant that has been the largest winner of the AI boom, erased $589 billion in market cap, for the biggest one-day wipeout in US stock-market history. Other chipmakers and big tech giants also swooned. So how did DeepSeek do it? Is it a big threat to the American AI giants like OpenAI and Anthropic? What does this say about export restrictions on US chips? On this special emergency session of the podcast, we spoke with Zvi Mowshowitz, an AI expert who authors the excellent Substack, Don’t Worry About the Vase. He answered all our questions and more to help understand what it means. Read more:  AI-Fueled Stock Rally Dealt $1 Trillion Blow by Chinese Upstart World’s Richest People Lose $108 Billion After DeepSeek Selloff Only Bloomberg.com subscribers can get the Odd Lots newsletter in their inbox — now delivered every weekday — plus unlimited access to the site and app. Subscribe at bloomberg.com/subscriptions/oddlots See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.