DeepSeek shocked the AI world

By John Barbon

China’s DeepSeek, which burst out of obscurity and into the center of the tech universe has rattled the U.S.-led AI ecosystem with its latest model, shaving hundreds of billions in chip leader Nvidia’s market cap. The sector leaders are grappling with the fallout in the past few days, on the flip side, those tech giants and many of their peers have addressed questions about the startup lab’s new artificial intelligence model, which has stunned experts.

DeepSeek’s mobile app shot up to the top of the charts on Apple’s App Store early in the week and remained in the lead spot as of Friday, ahead of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Reports that its new R1 model, which rivals OpenAI’s o1, cost just $6 million to create sent shares of chipmakers.

There’s been plenty of debate online about the significance of DeepSeek’s rollout and whether the financial achievement is real. The tech CEOs were all talking about DeepSeek.Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella commented on its “real innovations.” OpenAI’s Sam Altman described it as “clearly a great model.” Apple CEO Tim Cook said “innovation that drives efficiency is a good thing.” And Palantir’s Alex Karp said it shows the importance of “an all-country effort.”

The keypoint to DeepSeek's success is its low-cost development, which has changed the global AI development trend, and it can be expected that more low-cost AI models will emerge in the future.The success of DeepSeek is due to the open source of AI technology, which will be the important foundation of the progress of AI technology for the foreseeable future.

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