BBC News Review DeepSeek：中国人工智能应用震撼科技界

From BBC Learning English. This is learning English from the news, our bookcast about the news headlines.

In this program, deep seek the Chinese ai app that shocked the tech world.

Hello, I'm Georgie,

and I'm new. In this program, we look at one big news story and the vocabulary in the headlines that will help you understand it.

You can find all the vocabulary and headlines from this episode, as well as a worksheet, on our website, bbc learning english dot com.

So let's hear more about this story.

A Chinese ay app that's artificial intelligence called Deep Seek has caught the attention of the entire tech industry and the world.

It was released on 20 january, and has quickly risen to the top of Apple stores download charts.

What makes Deep Seeks so special is that the company claims the latest model was built using only $5.6 million, whereas open AI, that's Chat gpts, developer, spent $5 billion last year alone.

Deep Seeks entry into the market has caused the value of other text stocks, such as and videos, to fall dramatically.

And our 1st headline is about the reaction from the AI industry.

And the headline is, why is the AI world freaking out over china's Deep Seek?

That's from The Japan Times. Okay, that headline again, from The Japan Times.

Why is the AI world freaking out over china's deep seek?

So this headline is suggesting that the AI world is freaking out about deep sea.

And we are looking at this frasal verb Freak out?

Yes, if you freak out, it means you lose emotional control.

This can be because of emotions like shock, excitement, fear, or even anger.

So why is the AI world freaking out?

Well, if you're an AI fan or even a nerd, you might freak out with excitement at a new tool.

But this headline is talking about something else.

Yes, they're referring to the tech companies who might be freaking out with fear or panic because they're losing market share.

Now, in the headline, freak out is followed by over but in our examples we've been using about freak out, about both about and over are fine.

Yes, we can also use freak out as an adjective.

Freaked out, we could say the AI world is freaked out.

Yeah. And Georgie, I was freaked out last night when I bumped into my son wandering around the house in the middle of the night, 04:00 a.m., he really gave me a shock.

It really freaked me out. That does sound a bit scary.

Um, freak Out is also a noun.

Freak Out. Other headlines are calling this The Deep Seek freak Out.

I had a freak out last week when I realized there was no food in the fridge.

Hmm. That is a serious situation.

And if you want to learn more, find the Frasal Verbs for Feelings video on BBC learning english dot com.

It's got me and Georgie in it.

And I, you know, georgy's some pretty good acting from me.

And Bert, isn't there? There's some fantastic acting from you.

And there we had freaking out, losing emotional control, e.g.

I freaked out when my favorite actor walked past me in the street.

This is learning English from the news.

Alpacast about the news headlines today, we're talking about the launch of china's AI up Deep Seek.

Deep Seek was cheaper to make because it uses fewer advanced chips than other leading models like open Ai.

That possibility caused the tech giant and video, who make these chips, to lose almost $600 billion of its market value in one day.

This is the biggest drop in the history of the US stock market, according to Bloomberg.

Other tech company stocks have also fallen, and the US president, donald Trump, has said it was a wake up call for US companies who must focus on competing to win.

He means they need to pay attention, take note of what's happened.

And our next headline is about Deep seeks effect on the stock market.

This one is from the BBC, and video Shares sink as Chinese Ai app speaks us markets.

And that headline, again from the BBC and Video Shares Sink as Chinese ai app spooks us markets.

So this headline is about how, in video, the American tech giant lost $600 billion of its market share, and how deep seek is spooking the markets.

And we're looking at the word spook.

Neil, what can you tell us?

Well, georgie, I know you love Halloween.

People dress up as things like ghosts and skeletons and scary things, and we often use the word spooky as an adjective to describe such scary things.

Yes, but in the headline, spook is a verb.

Now, if you spoke

a person or an animal, it means you frighten or scare them, often with a surprise.

Yeah, but here we're talking about something a bit more abstract the stock market.

Deep seek spooks us stock market.

Now, this means that the release

of the AI app has created a sudden sense of fear or nervousness for investors in the stock market.

Yes, this causes the investors to potentially sell their stocks.

And his created a big shock or disruption in the stock market.

Yeah. So just imagine how this big news in the tech world has caused people to panic.

We've had spook create a sudden sense of fear or nervousness, e.g.

the government sudden tax cuts spooked the markets.

This is learning English from the news, from BBC.

Learning English. We're talking about Deep Seek, china's new ai AT that has shocked the tech industry.

Now, some thought it was obvious that the US would dominate the AI race because of its many data centers and control over the best chips.

But now there is a sense that Deep Seek may have disrupted that confidence.

And we have a headline about this.

It's from Business Today, and it says, ai markets shake up.

Global giants tumble as Chinese Ai model deep seek disrupts markets That headline Again from Business to day Ai markets shake up Global giants tumble as Chinese Ai model deep seek disrupts markets.

So again, we're hearing about the fall of these tech giants and the disruption in the markets.

Yes, but we're looking at the word shake up.

AI market shake up. We all know what shake means, georgie.

If you shake a drink, it mixes the ingredients.

And if you're playing a game with some dice, e.g., you shake them up and you don't know what numbers you're going to get, it becomes different to what was before and unpredictable.

Okay, what's that got to do with AI?

A good question. Well, lots of people thought that the US would dominate the AI industry, but now there's a shake up.

That means there's been a change.

It's become less predictable. Maybe China will be the leader in AI now.

Okay, there's been a shake up, a work related example.

Um at work, you might have a shake up, different positions are created, some people might have to leave.

And we can also use shake up as a verb to shake something up.

Deep seek has shaken up the tech industry.

We ve had a shake up, a change, e.g.

the football team kept losing, so the coach decided to have a shake up.

She brought in some new players.

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