Radioflash! Episode 18: Chinese Sensing Advances
From Armada Analysis - Podcasts by Thomas Withington
March 6, 2025 · 15 min
About this episode
This episode discusses China's advancements in sensing technology and its implications for US technological pre-eminence.
China’s advancement in sensing technology is moving at pace. A new report examines in detail where the country might be catching up with the United States. On 20th January, the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) DeepSeek artificial intelligence chatbot was released, based on the DeepSeek-R1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) model. The Hangzhou DeepSeek AI company, which developed the model, has claimed its chatbot outperforms US rivals like OpenAI. It also claimed that DeepSeek’s large language model cost $5.6 million to train. This is notably less than that spent on comparable US offerings. Whatever the long-term effect of DeepSeek, the news thrust Chinese technological innovation into sharp relief. Advances such as these could have major strategic ramifications for accepted US technological pre-eminence. Not least of which in the sensing domain, which a report entitled China’s Remote Sensing , published in December 2024 by OTH Intelligence, discusses in detail. In this Radioflash! episode we talk to one of the report’s authors Tate Nurkin , a previous Radioflash! guest , about Chinese advances in sensing technologies across the board: How will the Chinese government and armed…
People in this episode
Host: Thomas Withington
Guest: Tate Nurkin
Topics covered
- Chinese technology
- sensing technology
- artificial intelligence
- military technology
- US-China relations
Keywords
- sensing technology
- China
- DeepSeek
- artificial intelligence
- military
- US technology
- Tate Nurkin
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: DeepSeek, OTH Intelligence, People’s Liberation Army
Places: China, United States
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