Business reporter, BBC News
US President Donald Trump has called the U.S. high-tech industry’s “A Wake-Up Call” after the Wall Street Artificial Intelligence (AI) has caused a shock wave.
The shares of major high -tech companies such as NVIDIA have decreased sharply, and the CHIP giants have reduced market value of $ 600 million (£ 48.2 billion).
What shook the industry was DeepSeek’s claim that the R1 model was only a part of the rival cost, and questioned the future of the United States and the size of the investment planned by US companies. Masu.
DeepSeek has become the most downloaded free app in the United States just one week after its release.
In response to the news, Trump said that the latest development in China in the AI industry could be “positive” for the United States.
“If you can make it cheaper, I think it would be good for us if you could reach the same final result (and) less than (and).” He told the reporters who boarded 1.
He also stated that he was not worried about breakthroughs and added that the United States would continue to be dominant players on the spot.
However, DeepSeek has raised cyber security concerns in some countries that the Australian Minister of Science, Ed Husic, is paying attention.
He tells Australia’s National Broadcasting Station ABC:
Deepseek has an open source Deepseek -v3 model, claiming that researchers have been trained for about $ 6 million (£ 4.2 million). However, this claim is being contested by other people in AI.
The U.S. reveals the appearance of advanced chip technology that strengthens AI to China.
China’s AI developers shared their work and experimented with new approaches to technology to continue working without steadily providing imported advanced chips.
This has created AI models that require much less computing power than before.
It also means that they are much lower than they had thought before.
Following the shock of the US market on Monday, the FTSE 100 Stock Index, the largest public company in the UK, seemed to be resilient due to an early Tuesdays of Tuesday’s early transactions.
The Tech Heavy NasdaQ index futures also increased by 0.1 % after NVIDIA shares were slightly carved in outside business hours.
However, Japanese AI -related companies, including ADVANTEST, SoftBank, and TOKYO ELECTRON, decreased sharply, reducing the benchmark Nikkei 225 by 1.4 %.
Some other markets in Asia have been closed on the new year’s New Year holidays. The financial market in mainland China will be closed on Tuesday and will resume on February 5.
Who established DeepSeek?
The company was established in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng in Hangzhou, a city in southeastern China.
The age of 40, a graduate of information and electronic engineering, has also established hedge funds that support DeepSeek.
He was recently seen at a meeting with the industry expert and the Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang.
In an interview with the China Academy in July 2024, his wife was surprised at his response to his previous version of his AI model.
“I didn’t expect the price setting to be such a delicate problem,” he said.
“We simply followed our pace, calculated the cost, and set the price accordingly.”
After Deepseek-R1 was released earlier this month, the company boasts “Performon on Par” as one of the latest models of Openai if used for tasks such as mathematics, coding, and natural language inference.
DeepSeek’s technology is praised by famous numbers, including Openai’s Chi -Sam Altoman, which is called the impressive model, especially for prices, but he reveals Openai. We provide much better models. ” forward.
“Despite the restricted access to advanced hardware, the ability comparable to DeepSeek’s US models indicates that the ingenuity of software and data efficiency can compensate for hardware restrictions.” According to Marina Zhang, an associate professor at Sydney Institute of Technology, which focuses on the Chinese high -tech industry.
Ion Stoica, a co -founder and executive chair of AI Software Company Databrics, said that the BBC, with more low costs in DeepSeek, could spur AI in business.
“If it happens, this cost reduction can accelerate the progress of AI,” he said. “So as a whole, the market will expand faster and the market value will grow faster.”
Chinese companies argue that their models can train with 2,000 special chips compared to the estimated models of the main models of 16,000.
But not everyone is convinced. Some are asking some doubts about Deepseek’s claims, including Tech Mogul ELON MUSK.
He responded to a post that claimed that DeepSeek actually had about 50,000 NVIDIA chips and is now banned from exports to China.
