Alarming advances by a little-known Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup have shaken some of the top U.S. technology groups.
China's Shensoke owns Shocking the Artificial Intelligence Sector Earlier this month, its latest V3 model was said to cost less than $6 million, a fraction of the billions splashed out by the likes of OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft, and use less than the best NVIDIA chips, To produce AI assistants and evaluate them. The best competitor.
While some tech captains criticized DeepSeek's “breakthrough” for simply copying Openai's latest developments, other AI experts in the U.S. said Chinese companies also showed impressive innovation to achieve cost constraints, and Biden Administration Trying to maintain America's lead in the superpower technological race.
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Analysts interviewed by top US media seem to agree with the creators of the DeepSeek V3 model, saying it “ranks the number one open source model and competes globally for the most advanced closed source model.”
AI enthusiasts seem to have discovered that as DeepSeek's V3 model was released today (January 27) (17 days after release), it surpassed rival Chatgpt to become the best free application available on the US Apple App Store.
Reuters said data research firm Sensor Tower has noticed the popularity of cheaper Chinese models among U.S. users.
Milestones highlight how DeepSeek What impressed Silicon Valley was a broader view of U.S. primacy in artificial intelligence and the effectiveness of Washington's export controls, which seek to limit China's access to NVIDIA's most advanced chips.
AI models from Chatgpt to DeepSeek require advanced chips to power their training. Since 2021, the Biden Administration has expanded the scope of the ban, aiming to prevent these chips from being exported to China and used to train AI models for Chinese companies.
However, DeepSeek researchers wrote in a paper last month that its V3 used NVIDIA's H800 chip for training and cost $5.5 million.
While the details of this have been disputed, claims that the chips used are less powerful than the most advanced NVIDIA products, which Washington is trying to keep away from China, as well as the relatively cheap training costs, have prompted U.S. tech executives to question the effectiveness of technology export controls.
Little is known about the company behind DeepSeek, a small Hangzhou-based startup founded in 2023 when search engine giant Baidu released the first large-scale Chinese AI language model.
Since then, dozens of big tech companies have released their own AI models, but DeepSeek was the first to be praised by the U.S. tech industry for matching or even exceeding the performance of the most advanced American models.
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