Daniel Bertram
Co-CEO at GigaBuddy
Daniel Bertram is co-CEO of GigaBuddy, an Australian AI automation platform he leads alongside Alida Tomaszewski. He brings a 15-year career in cybersecurity to the company and describes himself as a hacker at heart. Bertram and Tomaszewski first worked together on an NFT venture backed by one of Australia's largest venture funds; when that market cooled, they combined his AI tooling with her character-design work to build GigaBuddy, a visual workflow platform aimed at making AI automation reliable at scale. He discussed DeepSeek's AI breakthrough on In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy.
In their own words
From Decoding DeepSeek's AI Breakthrough: The $5M Model That Shook Nvidia · In The Blink Of AISometimes your constraints are what leads to innovation. And I think that seems to have happened in this case.
Key moments
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- 2:06 NVIDIA’s stock drop – What happened and the DeepSeek impact
- 4:45 DeepSeek’s R1 reasoning model – Why it’s revolutionary
- 7:48 Open-source vs. closed AI models – The Meta and DeepSeek contributions
- 11:10 NVIDIA’s AI chips – What they are, their role, and the challenges of innovation
- 15:30 Privacy concerns – Using AI models hosted in China
- 18:36 TikTok comparisons – National security concerns and data privacy
- 22:43 DeepSeek vs. OpenAI – Cost efficiency and the future of AI reasoning
- 28:57 Hyperscalers (Google, Amazon) – Their role in AI advancements
- 33:34 Ethical implications – Regulations and concerns in the AI space
- 38:35 GigaBuddy’s AI reasoning system – Building smarter AI-powered solutions
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