Chinese AI makers have learned to build powerful AI models that perform just short of the U.S.’s most advanced competition while using far less money, chips, and power.
In late December, Hangzhou-based DeepSeek released V3, an open-source large language model whose performance on various benchmark tests puts it in the same league as OpenAI’s 4o and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
Those are the most advanced AI models these companies currently offer to the broad public, though both OpenAI and Anthropic have next-generation models in their pipeline.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is causing turbulence on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley. They are making stunning breakthroughs. Deep Seek’s rise shows they can succeed at a fraction of what the U.S. giants spend despite export bans on top-of-the-line chips.
According to Axios, it could potentially be especially bad news for Nvidia, which designs the world’s most advanced AI chips, because DeepSeek is proving that rapid advances are possible even with fewer and less sophisticated chips. Nvidia’s stock slid on Friday and again in overnight trading last night, pulling the Nasdaq down with it.
Deep Seek started with only $6 million. Open AI is spending millions of dollars. The Chinese Communist company focused on basic research rather than consumer product development.
Despite these advances, China faces challenges such as reliance on foreign technology for chips, which U.S. export controls have curtailed. This has led to efforts to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing and design. Additionally, there’s a tension between technological advancement and the need for control under an authoritarian regime, which influences AI’s development and deployment, especially in areas like surveillance and censorship.
They also use slave labor.
DeepSeek is said to have already amassed a training network of 10,000 Nvidia H100s by the time U.S. sanctions were introduced in 2022.
Would DeepSeek be making such rapid advances on its own without having the latest work from OpenAI and its U.S. competitors to aim at? We don’t know.
Just the same, they might be leaving the US in the dust.
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Democrats who control almost every institution and department in the USA from the education system to the DOJ have obsessively been focused on woke leftism, on DEI.
Instead of hiring people because they are comeptent and brilliant people, they hired and gave promotions to much less qualified people who had the correct skin color ( or were LGBTQs or were female )
Democrats used billions of dollars on woke leftism and DEI; a good example of that is California , they were more interested in making sure some of the fire fighters were colored lesbians
While almost everyone in the USA was focused on woke leftism and DEI ( like making sure kids are taught that being born white makes them evil and that half naked drag queens are a good thing ) while all that money was wasted on a sick ideology, China was focusing on science and technology.
While Sam Britton – to give an example – was given a big job in the name of woke leftism ( and he was stealing luggage in airports so he could wear women’s clothes) China was focusing on science and technology.
Woke leftism and DEI are POISON.
Well … The Chinese Educate their People and do not Charge them 100k -at Massive Interests- to become Computer Scientists! You cannot compete America, until you Fix the Education Gap! Oh, and watch the H1-B, FOOLS, because those are Spies and Trojan Horses Packing Horrible Viruses.