China’s high -tech tart -up DEEPSEEK has been able to see the general scenery shortly after releasing models of artificial intelligence services equivalent to competitors, such as Chatgpt, but much more for training. You need a small computing power.
The claims around DeepSeek and the sudden interest in the company sent a shock wave through US technical markets, causing major stock prices on Monday.
The impact of DeepSeek has caused a wide range of reactions from Donald Trump and Openai CEO Sam Altman.
What you need to know about DeepSeek is as follows:
What is DeepSeek and what do you do?
DeepSeek is a large -scale language model AI product that provides services similar to products such as Chatgpt.
Using a phone app or computer software allows users to enter questions and statements in Deepseek and respond to textbooks.
DeepSeek models are bilinguals in both Chinese and English, and they understand and produce results.
DeepSeek released a model R1 a week ago. Regarding performance, R1 has already broken other models such as Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash, Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Meta’s LLAMA 3.3-70B, and Openai GPT-4O. Analysis ranking.
Who is behind DeepSeek?
DeepSeek was created in Hangzhou, China by Hangzhou Deepseek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd.
DeepSeek was founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng. Liang Wenfeng has a hedge fund called HIGH-FLYER, which uses AI-led trading strategies.
Liang states that HIGHFLYER was one of Deepseek’s investors and provided one of the first employees.
How did the market react to DeepSeek?
High -tech shares fell sharply on Monday, and stock prices for companies, such as NVIDIA, have plunged with the chips required for AI training.
The major US high -tech companies have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in AI technology, and the speculation has become wild, with the prospects of the potential competitors in China, which could surpass them.
On Tuesday morning, the price of NVIDIA was far below the one that had been traded in the previous week, but most high -tech shares have recovered.
In a statement issued on Monday, NVIDIA called Deepseek “excellent AI progress”, but claimed that NVIDIA’s unique product is necessary for AI inference. According to Deep Shek, the product was trained using a lower number of NVIDIA chips than expected.
How did the high -tech figures and competitors react?
In the Swiss World Economic Forum, Microsoft CEO’s Satya Nadella (the company is one of the largest investors of Openai) is called DeepSeek’s new model, SUPER DERVERISING.
An entrepreneur MARC Andreessen, known for co -writing of Mosaic, one of the world’s first web browsers, wrote on X on Sunday that “Deepseek R1 is the moment of AI’s SPUTNIK.” The United States recognized that its technical ability could not attack.
Openai CEO’s Sam Altman seemed to be taking a jab last month at Deepseek. This is because we noticed that V3, which functions as the basics of R1, may be confused with Chatgpt.
However, on Monday, Altman said that the new R1 was “especially impressive models that they can offer at a price.”
“We provide a much better model, and it is legal to have a new competitors!” He wrote in X: “I will raise some releases.”
Are there any security or other concerns about DeepSeek?
As a Chinese service, Deepseek faces the same criticism as other apps with China. Experts have kept the data provided to Deepseek and may be subject to Chinese laws.
Deepseek appears to censors the topic of censorship and expressing certain political trends when responding to some questions about China.
When Beijing asked about the sovereignty of Taiwan, the sovereignty of Taiwan, DeepSeek’s R1 states that the subject is “exceeding my current range.” In this model, Taiwan describes it as “the invasion of China’s territory”, and “all forms of” Taiwan Independence “separation activities are firmly opposed, and the perfect means of their homeland through peaceful means. We promise to achieve reunification. “
How did the politicians react? So far, there have been various reactions from US politicians to Deepseek.
On Monday, President Donald Trump said that Deep Shek could be a “positive development” for the AI industry, adding its success as “a morning call” for high -tech companies in the United States. Popularity.
Representative John Mulenal, chairman of the Chinese House of Representatives Selection Committee, said on Monday that he would have acted on the United States to slow down deep seeks.
D-VA. Senator Mark Warner said that it could defend existing export management related to advanced chip technology and need more regulations.
