China’s Deepseek Technology Startup Company was only established more than a year ago but has just reached a breakthrough compared to “Sputnik moments” in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), according to CNN.
On January 20, Deepseek launched the Deepseek R1 chatbot application, which is said to have almost similar ability to the famous opponents such as Openai’s GPT-4 chatgt, Llama of Meta and Google’s Gemini.
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It is noteworthy that China’s software has been developed at a much cheaper cost and in the context of this country for many years has been limited to access to the most advanced AI chips for national security reasons.
Deepseek said it spent only $ 5.6 million to build Deepseek R1, compared to hundreds of millions of dollars, even billions of dollars that US companies have poured into AI technology.
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Meta last week said it would spend $ 65 billion to develop AI this year. OPENAI’s General Director Sam Altman last year said that the industry needed trillions of dollars to invest to develop high -end chips for data centers to help run complex models.
Deepseek R1 uses NVIDIA’s H800 chip, produced after the US banned the export of the company’s most advanced chip, H100 to China since September 2022. In October 2024, the United States banned the export of H800. Deepseek R1 is an open source application, meaning other companies can check and build continued to improve capacity.
According to DeepSeeK, the R1 model surpassed the Oi-mini model of Openai on many evaluation indicators while the research of Artificial Analysis reviewed Chinese applications better than Google, Meta and Anthropic software for total quality. form.
According to CNN, DeepSeeK R1 has promoted the ranking on the charts on the app store, passing the chatgpt on January 27 and now nearly 2 million downloads.
Wall Street shook
Wall Street has been shaken to the appearance of DeepSeeK R1 when the NASDAQ Compisite index decreased by more than 3%, down nearly 1,000 billion USD, according to the sheet. The Guardian.
The NVIDIA AI chip manufacturing company is overtaken by Apple company the most valuable public company in the US after stocks dropped by 17%, the market price fell nearly 600 billion USD. The parent company Alphabet also lost US $ 100 billion and Microsoft decreased by $ 7 billion. A series of other US technology companies also dropped on January 27.
Famous technology investor Marc Andressen, supporter of US President Donald Trump, called the arrival of DeepSeek R1 as “Sputnik moments” in the field of AI and rated this as one of the most impressive breakthroughs that He has seen. The moment Sputnik was from the Soviet that shocked the world during the Cold War when the satellite was launched into orbit.
The DeepSeek “whether the rice grabbed” to create Deepseek R1 has made many people ask whether American companies have exceeded the development of AI. However, there is also an opinion that it is too early to deny the role of innovation and American leadership in the field of technology.