What is DeepSeek? And why are everyone talking about it?

The DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) model, was shot by the Apple Store download, stunning investor, and sinking some high -tech shares.

Released on January 20, he immediately impressed AI nerds, attracting the attention of the technology industry and the world.

US President Donald Trump said it was a “morning call” for US companies who had to focus on “competing to win.”

The company’s argument that DeepSeek is very special is that it was built at a paid cost of a model that leads the industry like Openai. This is to use less advanced chips.

As a result, the huge chip production NVIDIA reduced the market value of about $ 600 million (£ 48.2 billion) on Monday, the largest loss of US history.

Deepseek is also asking Washington’s efforts to contain Washington’s technical advantage. One important restriction is the ban on exports of advanced chips to China.

However, Beijing has doubled, and President Xi Jinping has declared AI as a top priority. Emerging companies like DeepSeek are important from traditional manufacturing to advanced technologies, electric vehicles, and AI, such as Chinese pivot -clothing and furniture.

So what do you know about DeepSeek?

The simplest Deepseek is a chatbot equipped with AI like Chatgpt.

This is a free app downloaded on the Apple App Store, and DeepSeek has been designed to “answer questions and improve life efficiently”.

However, the AI ​​model called R1 has about 670 billion parameters, which is the largest open source language model, according to Anil AnanthaSwamy, the reason for learning the machine.

According to what is conveyed, mathematics, coding, and inference are as powerful as O1 model of OPENAI (strengthening ChatGpt).

Like many other Chinese AI models, Baidu’s Ernie or Doubao -Deepseek -Deepseek is training politically sensitive questions.

When the BBC asked the app on June 4, 1989 what happened in Tiananmen Square, Deepseek did not provide details on the Chinese tabut pick.

“I’m sorry, I can’t answer that question. I’m an AI assistant designed to provide a kind and harmless answer.”

The Chinese government’s Cenroship was thought to be a major challenge to develop AI. However, DeepSeek seems to be trained with an open source model that allows you to execute complicated tasks while refraining from specific information.

And it is said that it was able to do this cheaply -the researchers behind it were $ 6 million on the construction of shoe philosophy, compared to the billions of US AI companies spending. It claims that it costs £ 4.8 million).

It is still unknown how they made it accurate. It is reported that DeepSeek founder has built a NVIDIA A100 chips store that has been banned from exports to China since September 2022.

Experts believe that this collection is estimated to be 50,000, and thinks that these chips have been combined with inexpensive and uniform chips to build such a powerful AI model. Masu.

DeepSeek was established by Liang Wenfeng in December 2023 and released the first major AI language model the following year.

Liang, who graduated from the University of Zhijiang with a degree of electronic information engineering and computer science, is not well known. But he is now finding himself in international spotlights.

He has recently been seen at a meeting hosted by China’s finest LI Qiang, reflecting the rise in Deepseek in the AI ​​industry.

Unlike many American entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley, Liang also has a financial background.

He is a hedge fund CEO called High -Flyer, which uses AI to analyze financial data and make an investment decision. In 2019, HIGHFLYER became the first quantum hedge fund in China to raise 100 billion yuan ($ 13 million).

He said in his speech that year, “Why wouldn’t it be China if the United States could develop its quantitative trade department?”

In a rare interview last year, he said that the Chinese AI sector could not follow it forever.

“In many cases, there is a gap of one or two years between China and the United States, but the real gap is between originality and imitation. If this does not change, China is always a follower. “”

He said why DeepSeek’s model surprised many Silicon Valley, as follows:

Deepseek’s achievements have overturned the belief that a larger budget and the highest -layered chips are the only way to advance AI. This is the prospect that created uncertainty about the future of high -performance chips.

“DeepSeek proves that the state -of -the -art AI model can be developed with a limited calculation resource,” said Wei Sun, a principal AI analyst in AutOunt Point Research.

“In contrast, Openai, which has been evaluated as $ 157 billion, monitors the ability to maintain the dominant advantage of innovation and justify its large -scale evaluation and expenditure without a significant profit. I’m facing. ”

The company’s low cost has been financial market on January 27, reducing high -tech NASDAQ by more than 3 % with a wide range of sales, including tip manufacturers and data centers around the world.

NVIDIA seems to have been hit the worst because its stock price has plummeted 17 % a day.

CHIP MAKER was the world’s most valuable company when measured by market capitalization, but fell third after Apple and Microsoft on Monday.

The rise of DeepSeek is a major boost for the Chinese government. This is trying to build an independent technology from the West.

The Communist Party has not yet commented, but Chinese state -owned media noticed that Silicon Valley and Wall Sleat giants were “losing sleep” through deep seeks.

“In China, Deepseek’s progress is celebrated as a proof of the country’s growth technical abilities and independence,” said Marina Zhang, Associate Professor of Sydney Institute of Technology.

“The company’s success is considered to be a verification of China’s innovation 2.0, a new era of homemade technical leadership promoted by young entrepreneurs.”

But she warned that this emotion could lead to “technical isolationism.”

Additional reports by Joan da Silva