{"id":287084,"date":"2025-02-03T12:01:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=287084"},"modified":"2025-01-29T05:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T05:50:18","slug":"cloud-capital-vs-ai-deepseek-technofeudalism-capitalism-and-the-new-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/02\/cloud-capital-vs-ai-deepseek-technofeudalism-capitalism-and-the-new-cold-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Capital vs AI: DeepSeek, Technofeudalism, Capitalism, and the New Cold War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>28 Jan 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yanis Varoufakis delves into the seismic developments of January 2025, spotlighting the transformative impact of DeepSeek\u2014a groundbreaking Chinese AI company that has sent shockwaves through the global tech and financial landscapes.<\/p>\n<p>By releasing free, open-source AI models, DeepSeek has not only disrupted the American stock markets but has also outperformed proprietary giants like OpenAI&#8217;s GPT-4, challenging the very foundations of the AI industry.<\/p>\n<p>Varoufakis unpacks the far-reaching implications of this upheaval, framing it within the context of techno-feudalism. He critiques the monopolistic &#8220;cloud capital&#8221; models typified by Amazon&#8217;s Alexa, contrasting them with the democratizing potential of commodified AI services such as ChatGPT. The discussion extends into the geopolitical arena, analyzing the intensifying tech rivalry between the United States and China and what it signals for the future of global power dynamics.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yanis Varoufakis on Cloud Capital vs AI: DeepSeek, Technofeudalism, Capitalism and the New Cold War\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aotKmC3FHn4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Yanis Varoufakis, a member of the Greek Parliament and<\/em> <em>a former finance minister of Greece, is leader of the MeRA25 Party,<\/em> <em>professor of economics at the University of Athens, and co-founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement). He is the author of \u2018<\/em>And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe\u2019s Crisis and America\u2019s Economic Future\u2019; \u2018<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/adults-in-the-room-my-battle-with-the-european-and-american-deep-establishment\/9780374538057\" >Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment<\/a>\u2019;<em> and, most recently, the novel<\/em> \u2018<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/another-now\/9781612199573\" >Another Now<\/a><em>\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 Jan 2025<\/p>\n<p>Yanis Varoufakis delves into the seismic developments of January 2025, spotlighting the transformative impact of DeepSeek\u2014a groundbreaking Chinese AI company that has sent shockwaves through the global tech and financial landscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1733,1009,244,803,1010,339,70,1557],"class_list":["post-287084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-big-tech","tag-china","tag-competition","tag-silicon-valley","tag-trade","tag-usa","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287085,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287084\/revisions\/287085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}