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Chinese app DeepSeek hammers US tech stocks with cheaper open-source AI model

China's AI startup company Deepseek is attracting attention in Silicon Valley, almost comparable to the function of chatbots such as Openai's ChatGpt, but is only one -minute development costs.

Deepseek has been rising rapidly since the application was released earlier this month, and has been downloaded 1.6 million times in the United States by January 25, with Australia, Canada, China, and Singapore iPhone app stores. It is ranked first. Unlike the United States and the United Kingdom Chatgpt and other major AI competitors, DeepSeek is open source, so developers can provide software with their own improvements.

On January 20, the company announced R1, a special model designed to solve complex problems, which is “expanded to the top 10 in the world by performance”, less powerful. It was constructed much more quickly and much more expensive. Low cost than other US models, According to Wall Street Journal.

Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann Lecun, talked about this app and his rapid success in social media.

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Chat bot app developed by Chinese AI company Deepseek (Getty Image/Getty Image)

He pointed out By post on the thread He says that he's most impressive about DeepSeek's success is not the growing threat created by China's competition, but the value of making an AI model open and can benefit. Ta.

“The Chinese AI is not” the United States, “but Lukan said,” the open source model is beyond its own model, “Lukan said.

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The new possibility of AI development of open source causes waves in the stock market, and some traders sold stocks in companies, such as NVIDIA, which develops computer chips that are usually necessary for brute force AI training.

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According to what experts told the journal, Deepseek's technology is still delayed to Openai. And Google. However, the number of chips used is small and the advancedness is inferior, and in some cases, it is a narrow rival, despite the fact that US developers think that they are essential.

The newspaper reported that the two models of DeepSeek were ranked in the top 10 in the chatbot arena, a platform that evaluates chatbot performances hosted by researchers at the University of California Berkeley. 。

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Deepseek's main model is free, but the magazine reports that the company has charged users who connect their own applications to Deepseek models and computing infrastructure.

Fox Business's Stepheny Price has contributed to this report

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