The Chinese artificial intelligence application (AI) Deepsek overcome Chatgpt and other rivals to become the best rated free app at the Apple App Store in the US, UK and China.
The application has increased in popularity since its launch in January, challenging a wide belief that America is the untouchable leader of the AI industry.
It is powered by a model of an open code Deepseek-V3, which his researchers claim to have been developed for less than $ 6 million-known less than billions that the rivals spent.
But that claim was challenged by another in AI space.
Once Deepseek-R1 has been launched earlier this month The company boasted “Performance compared to” one of the latest Chatgpt Maker Openi models – when used for tasks such as mathematics, coding and reasoning of natural language.
Venture Capitalist Silicon Valley and Advisor Donald Trump Marc Andreessen described Deepseek-R1 as “Aie’s sputnik moment”In the reference to the first satellite of the artificial country that the Soviet Union launched in 1957.
Advanced chips are powered by training AI models like Chatgpt and Deepseek.
But since 2021, the US government has expanded its limitations on advanced chips sold in China.
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.
Stocks in companies related to AI-based AI, such as Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta were on Monday morning.
Some estimates put on deepseek training costs in a fraction of large American AI companies.
“This can potentially destroy the investment case for the entire AI supply chain, which is guided by high consumption of a small handful of hypersaler,” said the BBC based BBC, a Vey-Sern Ling Technology Advisor.
However, the Wall Street banking giant has warned that although Deepseek can dispute dominant positions of US companies such as open questions facing Chinese companies, they could prevent their development.
“We estimate that an inevitably restrictive environment is an American approach to more advanced chips an advantage,” his analysts said in the report.
Last week announced a consortium of US technological companies and foreign investors Stargate project, A company that invests $ 500 billion in Texas in AI infrastructure.
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 allegedly He built the NVIDA A100 chip trade, now forbidden to export to China. Experts believe that this collection – which some estimates put it at 50,000 – stated that he launched Deepsek, pairing these chips with cheaper, lower classes still available for imports.
Mr. Liang was recently seen at a meeting of an industry expert and the Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang.
