The president of the United States, Donald Trump, described the emergence of the Chinese company, Deepseek as “a call for attention” for the United States technology industry.
Trump declared this after the emergence of his artificial intelligence model (AI) triggered shock waves on Wall Street.
Deepseek said that his artificial intelligence models are comparable to those of American giants, such as Openai, which is behind Chatgpt and Gemini of Google, but potentially a fraction of the cost.
The actions of the main technological companies such as Nvidia fell sharply, with the chips giant losing almost $ 600 billion (£ 482 billion) in market value.
What has shaken the industry is Deepseek's statement that its R1 model was made at a fraction of the cost of its rivals: asking questions about the future of the mastery of the AI ​​of the United States and the scale of the investments that US companies They are planning.
Deepseek has become the most unloaded free application in the US. Only one week after its launch.
However, the president of the United States believes that the success of the Chinese firm could be useful for the aspirations of the United States.
“The launch of Deepseek, AI of a Chinese company, should be a attention call for our industries that we need to focus on the competition to win,” Trump said.
He indicated that if the Chinese industry could create the cheapest technology, American companies would follow it.
“We always have the ideas. We are always the first. Then I would say it is positive that it could be a very positive development.
“Then, instead of spending thousands and billions, he will spend less and will occur, hopefully, the same solution,” Trump said.
However, the intense attention in the Chinese firm has not been good news. He informed to suffer “large -scale malicious attacks” in his services.
The company said it was beaten by a cyber attack on Monday that interrupted the capacity of users to register on the site.
Sam Altman, CEO of Openai, has promised to overcome Depseek's rival firm.
He pointed out Deepseek's ability to use less computer resources. “I see that as positive, as an asset … you will not spend so much and you will get the same result, hopefully,” he added.
On Monday, Depseek's assistant had surpassed ChatgPT in Apple's App Store downloads.
Depseek launched a free assistant who says he uses less data at a fraction of the cost of the main actors in the industry
“Deepseek R1 is an impressive model, particularly around what they can deliver for the price,” he wrote.
But Altman was also challenging: “Obviously, we will deliver much better models and it is also legitimate to have a new competitor! We will upload some releases. “
Deepseek is a startup founded in 2023 in Hangzhou, China.
His CEO Liang Wenfeng co-founded one of China's main coverage funds, High-Flyer, which focuses on quantitative trade promoted by AI.
By 2022, he had created a group of 10,000 of the high performance chips of NVIDIA that are used to build and execute AI systems. Then, the United States restricted the sales of those chips to China.
Deepseek said that recent AI models were built with the lower Nvidia performance chips, which are not prohibited in China, suggesting that avant -garde technology may not be critical for the development of AI.
In January 2024, R1 launched, a new AI model that said it was on par with similar models of US companies, but is cheaper to use according to the task.
Since Chatbot of Deepseek was available as a mobile application, it has overcome the rival chatpt in the downloads of the Apple application store.
There have been Deepseek concerns could undermine the investment of potentially $ 500 billion (£ 401 billion) of OpenAi, Oracle and Softbank in Stargate that Trump announced last week at the White House.
This project essentially aims to build much more computer power to boost the development of AI.
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