Subj : China Building Laser
To   : All
From : Mike Powell
Date : Fri Jan 31 2025 10:57:00

From TLDR 2025-01-30

 CHINA SECRETLY BUILDING WORLD'S LARGEST NUCLEAR FUSION LASER, US
SATELLITE EXPOSES (3 MINUTE READ) [8] 

 China is developing a laser fusion research facility in the
southwestern region of the country. It will be larger than the US
National Ignition Facility, the current world's largest inertial
confinement fusion facility. The new development could have huge
implications for both nuclear weapons research and clean energy
production. China has not revealed the purpose of the facility. 

 ON DEEPSEEK AND EXPORT CONTROLS (28 MINUTE READ) [13] 

 DeepSeek's achievements make export control policies more
existentially important than they were a week ago. Export controls
keep democratic nations at the forefront of AI development. The idea
that the technology getting cheaper and more powerful is a reason to
lift export controls makes no sense - they are one of the most
powerful tools for preventing authoritarian governments from behaving
aggressively on the world stage. DeepSeek's release is roughly on the
expected cost reduction curve, which big tech has already factored
into its calculations - it will still require billions of dollars of
infrastructure to make AI that is smarter than almost all humans at
almost all things. 

 ZUCK SHRUGS OFF DEEPSEEK, VOWS TO SPEND HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS ON AI (2
MINUTE READ) [14] 

 Mark Zuckerberg said during Meta's first-quarter earnings call on
Wednesday that the company will be investing very heavily in AI this
year. Meta considers DeepSeek a new competitor, but it says that it is
way too early to tell if demand for chips will stop increasing, as
they are still crucial for inference. The company is aiming to make
Llama 4 the world's most competitive model. Llama 4 is expected to
have multimodal and agentic capabilities. 

 "EVERYTHING THAT MOVES WILL BE ROBOTIC": NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG
SAYS ROBOTS AND SELF-DRIVING CARS ARE JUST AROUND THE CORNER (4 MINUTE
READ) [17] 

 Jensen Huang believes that Nvidia will have a big role to play in a
future where we are surrounded by robots. 

Links:
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[8] https://links.tldrnewsletter.com/Ahr9wc
[13] https://darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-and-export-controls?utm_source=tldrnew
sletter
[14] https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/29/zuck-shrugs-off-deepseek-vows-to-spend-h
undreds-of-billions-on-ai/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter
[17] https://www.laptopmag.com/laptops/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-robots-self-driv
ing-cars-?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

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