DeepSeek R1 $294k + Alibaba AI Chip + Judge Halts Anthropic

The Monkey Patching Podcast: Going Bananas on AI, Data, LLMs & Tech

Bigger and Better Worlds — World Labs
https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/bigger-better-worlds

AI as teleportation — Geoffrey Litt
https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/09/10/ai-as-teleportation.html

Introducing Shuttle Cobra — Shuttle
https://www.shuttle.dev/blog/2025/09/18/introducing-shuttle-cobra

Secrets of DeepSeek AI model revealed in landmark paper — Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03015-6

Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20 (Hacker News discussion)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45273747

Vibe Shift? Senior Developers Ship nearly 2.5x more AI Code than Junior Counterparts — Fastly
https://www.fastly.com/blog/senior-developers-ship-more-ai-code

Albania appoints world’s first AI government ‘minister’ to root out corruption — Euronews
https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/09/12/albania-appoints-worlds-first-ai-government-minister-to-root-out-corruption

Judge puts Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement on hold — The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/news/775230/anthropic-piracy-class-action-lawsuit-settlement-rejected

Thanks a lot for listening! ❤️

• (00:27) - World Labs — “Bigger and Better Worlds”
• (04:31) - Geoffrey Litt on “AI as Teleportation”
• (12:54) - Shuttle — Introducing “Cobra”
• (19:17) - DeepSeek R1 — peer-reviewed costs & methods
• (22:19) - Alibaba’s H20-class AI chip debate
• (28:56) - Senior developers ship ~2.5× more AI code
• (40:02) - Albania’s AI “minister” for public tenders
• (44:22) - Judge pauses Anthropic $1.5B book-piracy settlement
• (52:19) - ByteDance — “SeedDream 4.0” (quick note)