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Novo Nordisk taps OpenAI for drug discovery as Stanford says US-China LLM gap shrinks to 1.7%

April 14, 2026 · Evening brief · 14 news · 5:34

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Novo taps OpenAI for drug discovery, China trails US LLM by 1.7%, Google AI hallucinates, DeepSeek chip-smuggling whispers, $4k bot drops, AI cockpit empty, Agent office wars rage quiet

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    🤖 DeepSeek R1 joins top tier; US-China LLM gap narrows to 1.7%

    Stanford AI Index 2026: DeepSeek R1 joins global top tier, US-China LLM gap shrank from 9.26% to 1.70% by Feb. The catch-up window is slamming shut, funneling capital and talent to a few domestic leaders.

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  2. Technology

    🤖 DeepSeek V4 trained on smuggled NVIDIA Blackwell chips

    US officials told FT DeepSeek V4 trained on 12k smuggled Blackwell GPUs via Singapore. Plugging the export gap could lift black-market compute 30-50%, squeezing domestic LLM labs.

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  3. Technology

    🤖 Gemini Live makes bots sing; Google DeepMind drops open demo

    Gemini Live API steers open-source Reachy Mini in Google DeepMind demo, enabling ms-level voice chat, on-the-fly music and synced motion. Devs can skip building multimodal LLMs and still ship robots that listen, speak, sing and move.

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