DeepSeek: A Sputnik Moment?
It's one of those days, when out of the blue... competition hits you, with innovation that is, something you thought could never be possible... the trinity of – better, faster and cheaper.
Is it a Black Swan moment for OpenAi and NVDA.
There's so much info coming out, so better to touch upon some of the history first.
PAY ATTENTION TO THE PART...
... wants DeepSeek to be a leading "local" company.
How many have that desire in India? If you're an Indian, you need to start taking China seriously.
Meanwhile, there's a huge debate going on about "Chinese in US" vs "China". Nevertheless, you should pay attention...
To read more...
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng:
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) January 26, 2025
>> Studies machine vision at Zhejiang University
>> At 30 in 2015, launches High-Flyer quant hedge fund
>> Makes a fortune (now $8B AUM)
>> Wants to build “human” level AI as side hustle and pitches partners but they initially sceptical
>>… pic.twitter.com/POwrrPluNm
Cheaper...?
OpenAI o1: $60.00 per 1M output tokens
DeepSeek R1: $2.19 per 1M output tokens
The China is crushing US rhetoric totally forgets about Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking.
— Deedy (@deedydas) January 26, 2025
Likely cheaper, longer context and better on reasoning.
We're still early in the AI race. pic.twitter.com/X42VKTbGFZ
The Chinese AI company spent only $5.6 million to develop the DeepSeek-V3 model which is surprisingly low compared to the millions pumped in by OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft. Or is it...
But...
My only concern is the data, and how the data can be used. To get the point, check out this screenshot (it says it all):
Or...
ME: Is Taiwan a country?
— 🖤 Christine (@christinelu) January 25, 2025
DeepSeek starts to regurgitate the usual CCP propaganda then cuts off at “Taiwan independence” and errors out. pic.twitter.com/4o0d4DlMpO
Granted, even other AIs have some sort of bias. 🤷
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