The Chinese AI app DeepSeek has sent shockwaves through the US scientific and technological communities, drawing widespread attention for its revolutionary innovations and capabilities.
In late December of 2024, DeepSeek released the hybrid model DeepSeek-V3, whose evaluation scores in multiple tests have surpassed open-source models such as Llama-3.1-405B, and its performance is comparable to the world's top closed-source models GPT-4o and Claude-3.5-Sonnet. In addition, DeepSeek-V3 is more cost-effective.
On January 20, the opening day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2025 Annual Meeting, DeepSeek released its latest open-source model DeepSeek-R1, which has achieved an important technological breakthrough -- using pure deep learning methods to allow AI to spontaneously emerge with reasoning capabilities.
In tasks such as mathematics, coding and natural language reasoning, the performance of this model is comparable to the leading models from heavyweights like OpenAI, according to DeepSeek.
The training cost of DeepSeek-R1 amounts to a mere 5.6 million U.S. dollars, a figure that stands in stark contrast to the hundreds of millions - or even billions - of dollars invested by American tech giants like OpenAI, Google, and Meta.
At present, DeepSeek has topped the Apple App Store's free downloads in the U.S., outpacing ChatGPT in free downloads.
According to the Reuters, Nvidia on Monday said DeepSeek's advances show the usefulness of its chips for the Chinese market and that more of its chips will be needed in the future to meet demand for DeepSeek's services.
In an interview with China Media Group (CMG), Robert McCooey, vice chairman of Nasdaq, said DeepSeek is going to be an important aspect of the AI revolution.
"I think that AI will continue to be one of the most important revolutions, will be some of the most important things that we will experience in our lifetime and DeepSeek is going to be an important aspect of that," McCooey said.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said that the release of DeepSeek should be a wake-up call for our industries that they need to be laser-focused on competing.
Trump described the low-cost model as "very much a positive development" for the AI industry, emphasizing that rather than investing billions upon billions, firms can achieve comparable results at a fraction of the cost.
Chinese AI app DeepSeek shocks US tech industry with groundbreaking innovation
Chinese AI app DeepSeek shocks US tech industry with groundbreaking innovation
