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The Chinese AI Startup Rivaling OpenAI & Trump Fires Tariffs at Colombia?
Mon, 27 Jan 2025
Episode 505: Neal and Toby dive into a Chinese start up has created an AI model that rivals OpenAI for a fraction of the cost. Then the first international scuffle under the Trump presidency, as he announces retaliatory tariffs against Colombia after they reject deportation planes. Then, Plus, avian flu continues to ravage the egg supply setting it up for the highest prices in years. Meanwhile, Costco and sports parlays are the weekend’s winners. Lastly, what you need to know in the week ahead. Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Download the Yahoo! Finance App (on the Play and App store) for real-time alerts on news and insights tailored to your portfolio and stock watchlists. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here: https://link.chtbl.com/MBD Watch Morning Brew Daily Here: https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow All investing involves the risk of loss, including loss of principal. Brokerage services for US-listed, registered securities, options and bonds in a self-directed account are offered by Public Investing, Inc., member FINRA & SIPC. Public Investing offers a High-Yield Cash Account where funds from this account are automatically deposited into partner banks where they earn interest and are eligible for FDIC insurance; Public Investing is not a bank. Cryptocurrency trading services are offered by Bakkt Crypto Solutions, LLC (NMLS ID 1890144), which is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the NYSDFS. Cryptocurrency is highly speculative, involves a high degree of risk, and has the potential for loss of the entire amount of an investment. Cryptocurrency holdings are not protected by the FDIC or SIPC. APY as of 1/16/25, offered by Public Investing, member FINRA/SIPC. Rate subject to change. *Terms and Conditions apply. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What is the Chinese AI startup that rivals OpenAI?
And the government thought like, oh, coal power plants are much more efficient. That means we're going to need less coal. The exact opposite happens when efficiency gains are reached. Actually, more of that resource ends up being used. So that is what I've been kind of seeing from some tech leaders is like, hey, this is not Armageddon.
What's actually going to happen is we're going to even see more demand for AI chips because of these efficiency gains. So there's a couple of ways to look at it. You can look at it that it is going to be a bloodbath that will wipe out NVIDIA's dominance or NVIDIA's NVIDIA could just become more entrenched than ever due to these efficiencies.
And we have to mention the geopolitical angle, too, because the U.S. and China are locked in this huge arms race for AI supremacy. And we thought the U.S. had the lead because we have OpenAI and Microsoft and Meta and these other tech giants, NVIDIA. But now this Chinese company comes along and shows that it has parity with the U.S. So it looks like whatever export controls we had to
keep China from competing with the US have not been working.
Let's stay on the topic of geopolitical tension. Trump issued a barrage of tariffs over the weekend, but not at a country you'd expect like Mexico or China. Instead, it was Colombia, a longtime U.S. ally in Latin America, that was in Trump's crosshairs.
On Sunday, President Trump said he would impose tariffs and sanctions against Colombia after its president, Gustavo Petro, refused to accept two U.S. flights carrying deported migrants. As a result, the president said he would slap a 25% tariff on all Colombian imports, which include commodities like crude oil and coffee, promising to raise them again to 50% in one week.
If the tariffs weren't enough, Trump also said he would fully impose financial sanctions against Colombia, tossing in a travel ban for good measure. By the end of the day, though, Colombia had given in to Trump's demands, averting a costly trade war. But the show of force was likely meant to dissuade other countries from getting similar ideas.
Quote, it sends a powerful message to the world that not even old political allies are safe if they do not cooperate, Bloomberg wrote. Neil, this is the first, but certainly not the last time that we will see Trump using economic pressure to force a country to bend to an American first policy.
I don't think anyone woke up yesterday morning thinking that we would be in a full-blown trade war with Colombia, which you mentioned is one of our top allies in Latin America. But that is exactly what happened. Looks like the Colombian president refused to accept these flights. Now, he has accepted many hundreds of migrant deportations coming from the United States over the past few years.
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