Deepseek not only revolutionizes Openai, but also Chinese tech giants
Deepseek not only revolutionizes Openai, but also Chinese tech giants
deepseek, an innovative Hong Kong company, caused excitement in the global stock market scene and among the actors of artificial intelligence. Now its influence is spreading quickly in China, since some of the country's largest technology companies that had previously developed their own chatbots are eagerly working to integrate the open source model into their services.
technological progress and strategic partnerships
At the beginning of February, the telecommunications giant Huawei announced that Deepseek will operate on its own hardware, consisting of domestically produced ascend processors. This step is viewed as a turning point by many experts because it shows that powerful models like Deepseek are no longer dependent on the most powerful chips from Nvidia.
Analysts from Bernstein, a research and investment company, emphasized in a research report that “this partnership is challenging the US sanctions by proving that China can achieve competitive intelligence worldwide with domestic intelligence with domestic hardware and software and thus replaces NVIDIA chips with ASCEND chips.”
US export controls and their effects
At the end of 2022, the bid administration imposed several rounds of export controls against China to withdraw technology that could possibly be used to develop new weapons systems and AI applications. But the success of Deepseek’s the latest R1 AI model, which was supposedly trained at a fraction of the costs of established products such as chatt, in question that the withdrawal of access to advanced chips could effectively hinder progress.In the meantime, leading Chinese AI chip manufacturers, such as Moore Threads and the Tencent-supported Enflame, have announced their support for Deepseek and will perform the AI model on their own calculation.
integration into the cloud services
In addition to the chip manufacturers, the cloud services of large Chinese technology companies such as Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu and Bytedance (TIKTOK's parent company) have also started to integrate deepseek technology into their offers. These companies have made the deepseek services available via their cloud platforms, as well as the three largest telecommunications providers in the state as well as Lenovo and Geely.Lian Jye SU, chief analyst at Omdia, a technology research company, notes: "This is recognition for companies with open source models. If your model is good, AI giants will integrate it into your platforms." Despite the gambling that competitive products have produced, the large Chinese technology companies Deepseek welcomed to attract more users and companies on their platforms.
The successful rise of deepseek
deepseek, a start-up founded in Hangzhou in 2023, caused a sensation worldwide last month when its latest AI model introduced. The associated AI assistant app quickly rose to the global download charts and already overtook Chatgpt at the end of January. According to the state media, the daily number of users has reached more than 22 million within just 20 days.
The success of Deepseek catapulted its founder, Liang Wenfeng, into the series of national heroes. Despite the optimism, analysts warn that bottlenecks in the development of Chinese AI chips remain due to the US export restrictions. Linghao Bao, Senior Analyst at Trivium China, explains: "The porting of the deepseek models to different chip architectures requires a lot of software work on a low level. The fact that this could be done quickly is noteworthy, but does not solve the problem of chip lack."
international concerns and regulations
The quick expansion of Deepseek was also followed internationally. Last week, Taiwan and Australia prohibited their government officials to use the Chinese AI service due to concerns about data security. Some South Korean ministries and government agencies have also issued similar bans. In addition, Italy imposed a general ban on the Deepseek app last month after the company had not complied with the data protection concerns expressed by the authorities. More and more countries are now expressing doubts about the company's data practices.
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