AI industry in panic after China’s DeepSeek overtakes ChatGPT and Meta
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released the latest version of its open-source AI last week, which rivals the best models of tech giants like Meta and ChatGPT creator OpenAI. In a post to the employment forum Blind, an anonymous Meta employee claimed that the company’s generative artificial intelligence division was in “panic mode” over DeepSeek. How would they face the leadership when every single ‘leader’ of gen ai org is making more than what it cost to train DeepSeek v3 entirely, and we have dozens of such ‘leaders’.” Silicon Valley experts warned that the dominance of US Big Tech is under threat from DeepSeek, which offers a cost-effective alternative to current AI development methods. This is not just about a single company; it represents a larger trend that will redefine the global economic landscape.This is the clearest signal yet of where the future is heading.” Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun acknowledged the rise of DeepSeek, but claimed that it should be seen as less of a threat and more a demonstration of the strength of open source models.
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