Investors and analysts are surprised by the release of an artificial intelligence model that can reproduce O1’s O1 performance in just a part of the cost. The market involving Microchip and NVIDIA, a company of AI, has abandoned more than $ 500 million in a record of the records of all companies in Wall Street. Investors were afraid that DeepSeek would challenge the dominance of US AI leaders in the United States.
Donald Trump described Deep Shek as “Morning Call”. In China, Liang Wenfeng, the founder of Deepseek, was welcomed as a hero of the people and was invited to attend a symposium chaired by the Chinese Prime Minister, Li Qiang. The pace that China was able to catch up with US Frontier AI research is accelerating.
But despite the embargo on Advanced US Technology, DeepSeek is not only innovative Chinese companies. Matt Seahan, a member of the International Peace Fund of Carnegie and a Chinese AI expert, said, “If we think that the US government needs only to crush deep seeks, we need it. If it’s okay, we are rude.
In recent weeks, other Chinese technology companies are in a hurry to publish the latest AI models that are equivalent to being developed by DeepSeek and Openai.
But what are Chinese AI companies that can be comparable to the influence of DeepSeek?
Alibaba cloud
On January 29, the first day of the new year’s holiday, Alibaba Cloud, a technology company in China, a subsidiary of Alibaba, has released an update version of the QWEN 2.5 AI model called QWEN 2.5-Max.
According to Alibaba Cloud, QWEN 2.5-Max exceeds the 11 benchmarks of Deepseek V3 and Meta’s LLAMA 3.1. The company said, “I am confident in the next version of Qwen 2.5-Max.”
The fact that some analysts chose to release QWEN 2.5-Max, just as Alibaba Cloud closed for holidays, is the pressure of DeepSeek in the domestic market. He said it was reflected. However, Seahan stated that it may be an attempt to ride the wave of the Chinese model advertising created by DeepSeek’s surprise.
Zhipu
ZHIPU is a Beijing -based emerging company and is supported by Alibaba. It is known as one of China’s “AI Tigers”, but has recently been a blacklist, not the result of the AI, but a blacklist by the US government. On January 15, ZHIPU was one of more than 20 Chinese companies added to the US restricted trade list. In particular, ZHIPU has been added to support China’s military progress associated with the development of AI. ZHIPU accused the decision and said there was no basis.
Aside from the claims for military uplift, it is clear that Zhipu’s progress in the AI space is rapid. The latest product is Atoglm, an AI assistant app released in October. This allows users to operate the smartphone with a complicated voice command.
Moon shot AI
On the same day that Deepseek released the R1 model on January 20, another Chinese emerging companies would release LLM and challenge O1 of Openai for mathematics and reasoning.
MOONSHOT AI is an AI startup supported by another Alibaba based in Beijing, worth $ 3.3 billion. Unlike Alibaba, a giant founded in 1999, Moonshot AI is a relative newcomer. Like DeepSeek, it was established in 2023.
The product, Kimi K1.5, is a Kimi upgrade version released in October 2023. Notice that it is the first AI assistant that can handle 200,000 kanji at a single prompt. MOONSHOT AI later stated that Kimi’s ability was upgraded to process 2m kanji.
“It is at the top level of Chinese emerging companies,” said Moonshot AI. “If MOONSHOT or ZHIPU has a model that is close to DeepSeek in the next few weeks or months, it will not be surprising at all.”
Bytedance
Another month’s New Year’s release came from Tactoku’s parent company, Betting Dance. On January 29, we announced DOUBAO-1.5-Pro, an upgrade to the flagship AI model.
In addition to performance, Chinese companies are challenging US competitors at prices. The most powerful version of DOUBAO is 9 yuan per million token, almost half the price provided by Deepseek-R1. For comparison, O1 of Openai is equivalent to 438 yuan for the same use.
Tencent
Tencent, a ubiquitous messaging app that is mainly known in games and WeChat, has advanced in AI. The flagship model is a generator from text to video called Hunyuan, and Tencent can be executed in the same way as Meta’s LLAMA 3.1. Some estimates suggest that Hunyuan requires about one -tenth of the computing ability used by Meta to train LLAMA.
