Trump warns to ‘Awakening Call’ for US Technology Companies
US President Donald Trump has called the increase in the Chinese company Deepseek “Alert Call” for the US Technology Industry, after the appearance of its artificial intelligence model (AI) has caused shock waves on Wall Street.
Stocks in the main technological companies like Nvidia have fallen suddenly, and Chip Giant lost more than $ 500 billion (£ 400 billion) in market value.
What has shaken the industry is Deepseek’s claim that his model R1 has been made with a fraction of rival costs – raising questions about the future of the US AI dominance and the extent of investment that US companies are planning.
Deepseek has become the most enthusiasm for a free application in the US just one week after it was launched.
Responding to the news on Monday, Trump said the latest events in the Chinese AI industry may be “positive” for the US.
“If you could do this cheaper if you could do that [for] less [and] Come to the same end result. I think that’s a good thing for us, “he told the Air Force to the one.
He also said he was not concerned about the breakthrough, adding that the now dominant player on the field would remain.
On Tuesday, shares in Japanese companies are associated with AI, including Advantest, SoftBank and Tokyo Electron, suddenly fell, helping to push the Nikkei 225 measure for about 1%.
Several other markets in Asia have been closed to a lunar New Year’s vacation.
The financial markets of the Continental China will be closed today and will reopen on February 5th.
On the stock market in the main countries that produce Taiwan and South Korea’s chips are also closed today.
Deepseek is launching an open -core Deepseek -V3 model, which his researchers claim to be trained for around $ 6 million (£ 4.2 million) – significantly less than the billions that the rivals consumed. But that claim was challenged by others in AI.
Its occurrence comes because now they limit the sale of advanced chip technology that triggers the cinema.
In order to continue their work without a permanent stock of imported advanced chips, Chinese programmers AI shared their work with each other and experimented with new approaches to technology.
This has resulted in AI models that require far less computer power than before.
This also means that they cost much less than he had previously thought it was possible, which has the potential to accelerate the industry.
“The ability to deepseek that the rivals to US models, despite a limited approach to advanced hardware, shows that software ingenuity and efficiency of data can compensate for hardware limitations,” says Marina Zhang, an associate professor at Sydney University, who focuses on the Chinese high -tech industry, said BBC, BBC said
After Deepseek-R1 was launched earlier this month, the company boasted “performance compared to” one of the latest Openi models when used for tasks such as mathematics, coding and explanation of natural language.
Deepseek’s technology praised high figures, including the Openi Chief Altman Sam, who called it “an impressive model, especially about what they could deliver for the price”, although he added that Openi “will obviously deliver much better models” move forward.
The Chinese company claims that its model can be trained to 2,000 specialized chips compared to an estimated 16,000 for leading models.
But not everyone is convinced. Some doubted some Deepseek claims, including technological powerful Elon Musk.
He answered the post that claimed that Deepsek actually had about 50,000 Nvidia chips now banned from an expert in China, saying, “Obviously.”
The company was founded by Liang Weenfeng in Hangzhou, a city in southeast of China in 2023.
The 40-year-old, graduate information and electronic engineering, also founded a Hedge Fund supported by Deepseek.
He was recently seen at a meeting of experts in the industry and Chinese premiere of Qiang.
In an interview in July 2024. Chinese AcademyMr. Liang said he was surprised by the reaction to the previous version of his AI model.
“We didn’t expect prices to be such a sensitive question,” he said.
“We simply followed our own pace, calculated costs and in accordance with that set prices.”