
What is China’s DeepSeek and why is it freaking out the AI world?
Live MintDeepSeek, an AI startup just over a year old, stirred awe and consternation in Silicon Valley with its breakthrough artificial intelligence model that offered comparable performance to the world’s best chatbots at seemingly a fraction of the cost. The much better efficiency of the model puts into question the need for vast expenditures of capital to acquire the latest and most powerful AI accelerators from the likes of Nvidia Corp. That also amplifies attention on US export curbs of such advanced semiconductors to China — which were intended to prevent a breakthrough of the sort that DeepSeek seems to represent. But DeepSeek’s progress suggests Chinese AI engineers have worked their way around the restrictions, focusing on greater efficiency with limited resources. While it remains unclear how much advanced AI-training hardware DeepSeek has had access to, the company’s demonstrated enough to suggest the trade restrictions have not been entirely effective in stymying China’s progress. That model underpins its mobile chatbot app, which together with the web interface in January rocketed to global renown as a much cheaper OpenAI alternative, with investor Marc Andreessen calling it “AI’s Sputnik moment."
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Why DeepSeek has banned its employees from leaving China
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Chinese Companies Rush to Put DeepSeek in Everything
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Chinese AI: Manus ‘agent’ and Alibaba’s new model released in quick succession
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City officials looking for DeepSeek help
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City officials looking for DeepSeek help
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DeepSeek to share some AI model code, doubling down on open source
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Chinese AI companies celebrate DeepSeek, shrug off global curbs
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DeepSeek usage a ‘personal choice’ for public, Government says
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South Korea becomes latest country to ban DeepSeek
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After DeepSeek, America and the EU are getting AI wrong
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