📈 Data to start your week

DeepSeek; tariffs; AI acceleration; big tech results; divorce

Good morning,

Here’s your essential Monday round-up of data driving conversation this week — all in less than 250 words.

Have a good week.

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1. Trump’s tariffs will affect $1.3 trillion worth of trade (≈ 5% of US GDP), representing 40% of US imports. When tariffs are applied to the EU, this will jump to roughly 58%.

2. A new AI benchmark, “Humanities Last Exam,” has only been out for a week and already saw its best score jump by 17.5 percentage points with the release of OpenAI Deep Research last night.

3. ChatGPT tripled its paid subscriber base to more than 15.5 million paying users in 2024. Remarkably, only 125,000 people pay for the very powerful $200 a month Pro tier.

4. Open-source at its peak. Over 550 new models based on DeepSeek-R1 have appeared on Hugging Face, racking up 2.5 million downloads.

5. DeepSeek’s closed the gap with the best publicly available models within nine months.