
When DeepSeek, the novel Chinese AI systems, launched last year, as the most downloaded app in Apple’s US Apps Store, it —to appropriate Hunter S. Thompson’s popular title—fear and loathing in the global economic and technology sectors. In a dramatic one-day selloff, the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite slid 3.1 % and the S&, P 500 sank 1.5 %, while DeepSeek’s principal competitor, Nvidia lost more than$ 590 billion in market cap.
However, the black fog for business results can be brightened for business presentations because DeepSeek’s technology uses a distillation technique that serves as a learning experience for how to manage and craft your stories.
According to a Wall Street Journal , AI from renowned firms like OpenAI and Anthropic “teach themselves from the ground away with enormous amounts of raw data,” a process that usually takes several months and tens of millions of dollars.
The parallel between story development and business people’s minds are that they have a lot of raw data in their heads both from their previous careers and from the new data at their existing business. All that knowledge comes rushing forward in a colossal amount when they begin to build their stories. Consider this to be the story growth process with a tractor. If not all of that information is distilled, the narrative turns into a data plop that ultimately overwhelms the audience.
When asked how to build a time, the person who frequently answers the question “how to build a clock” usually summarizes this strategy.
This destructive process is further complicated when the reporter starts to develop the story by writing whole sentences and/or designing slides, adding yet more mass to the raw data with considerations of word choice, punctuation, grammar, syntax, font style, color, size, etc. You get the picture.
According to the Wall Street Journal article, DeepSeek’s distillation is a new system that “learns from an existing one by asking it hundreds of thousands of questions and analyzing the answers” ( p. That is followed in four easy steps for story development:
- Set the context. Decide the presentation’s purpose and assess your audience. This straightforward procedure helps you concentrate on what you actually need while limiting the raw data’s volume. Additionally, it refutes the idea of a” company pitch.” One size does not fit all,
- Brainstorm. Do the data dump in your preparation not your presentation. Get all the ideas out of your mind and onto the external medium of your choice, be it a legal pad, Post-its, whiteboard, or computer screen. Make sure to sum up those concepts as few words as you can. Think of each idea as a headline. In crafting headlines, you avoid the descent into the deadly weeds of wordsmithing.
- Cluster. Find connections between the numerous concepts and arrange them in groups. You’ll find that ideas have natural affinities. Again, this reduces the volume of the raw data.
- Distill. Limit the number of clusters in total to no more than six. Five is better, four is better still. Less is more.
- Sequence. With only four to six clusters, you can then begin arranging them in a way that makes it simple to tell and, most crucially, simple for your audience to follow.
Although the outcome may not be as revolutionary as DeepSeek, your audience will be appreciative of the outcome.