There has been a lot of buzz about the Chinese artificial intelligence model. There are two reasons for that.
To the top. Chinese artificial intelligence startup Deepseek’s app became the most downloaded app in the Apple app store from the United States. Joel Maisalmi
A Chinese AI startup Deepsee too the app became the most downloaded app in the Apple app store in the United States.
The news agency reports about it Reuters.
The company released its application on Monday of last week and became one of the biggest topics of conversation in the technology world. The application is an artificial intelligence product similar to ChatGPT, which is considered the world’s most advanced language model.
The language model known as R1 was praised even by the US administration. Capital investor and advisor to President Donald Trump Marc Andreessen said the model at X was one of the most convincing breakthroughs he had ever seen.
– As an open source application, it is a gift to the world, Andreessen wrote.
of The Wall Street Journal by Deepseek’s artificial intelligence models were more efficient than, for example, in the list kept by the University of Berkeley Elon Musk’s owned by X’s used by Grok. In the listing Google The Gemini model is number one.
In the market, technology index Nasdaq 100 futures fell 2.6 percent and S&P 500 index futures fell 1.5 percent after Deepseek’s success, reports the news agency Reuters.
Two points of attention
Deepseek attracts attention for two reasons.
First of all, the R1 model was developed very cheaply. According to The Wall Street Journal, the company says that the construction of the model cost a paltry 5.6 million dollars, i.e. around 5.3 million euros.
The price can be compared, for example, by an artificial intelligence developer To Anthropicwhose developed model has a price tag ranging from 100 million dollars all the way up to a billion dollars.
The cost effectiveness is due to the fact that, according to Reuters, the company says it has trained the model Nvidia’s With H800 chips, which are not the top of the industry in terms of performance. This information has raised fears in the United States that the high technology export restrictions to China are not effective enough.
The second thing worth noting about Deepseek is that it is based on open source code. Some giant Meth artificial intelligence manager Yann LeCun quoth According to Fox Business, open source code is much more important in the company’s model than whether Chinese AI will beat its American competitor.
– Deepseek has utilized open research and open source products and built its ideas on the work of others. Because their work is public, everyone can benefit from it, LeCun wrote, according to Fox Business.