Despite massive investments in the artificial intelligence industry, the door seems to have a real competitor in this fight, from China. With minimal investments in hardware equipment, the Deepseek chatbot reached first place in the App Store, before Chatgpt, creating a shock wave by Silicon Valley.
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Deepseek, an artificial intelligence chatbot developed in China to compete with Chatgpt, has become the most downloaded application in the App Store, after its performances have surprised American companies. The Chinese start-up seems to compete at the same level as Chatgpt, developed by Openai, although the development costs were much lower. This has affected the market values of the great American players in the field of AI, according to Bloomberg reports.
The assistant AI Deepseek quickly climbed the top of the iPhone downloads, arousing doubts in Silicon Valley on American supremacy in artificial intelligence. The artificial intelligence model behind the application is considered competitive compared to the latest models of Openai and Meta Platforms Inc. Also, the fact that Deepseek was trained and developed with much lower costs triggered fluctuations in the Asian supply chain.
Reviews praise the application, comparing it with the premium version of Chatgpt, and users appreciate the fact that Deepseek offers detailed explanations, which increases confidence in its results.
Personally, I tested Deeepseek and I can say that there are some differences from Chatgpt, the latter as if offering more relevant results and reliability. However, considering that Deepseek has been developed with a much smaller budget than Chatgpt and that it is in the beginning, I can say that it is an application that promises a beautiful development and can be a replacement of Chatgpt in a not very distant future.
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In fact, Deepseek also earns land in Europe, where he recently ranked #1 in the App Store among the iPhone devices preferences.
A shock wave via Silicon Valley
According to Venturebeat, artificial intelligence experts confirm that Deepseek is truly competitive compared to the American top models. The availability of the Open-Source of Deepseek-R1, its high performance and the fact that it appeared “nowhere” In order to compete with the previous leaders of the generatively, they created shock waves not only in Silicon Valley, but also beyond that.
Web entrepreneur Arnaud Bertrand emphasized on the X platform the deep implications of Deepseek success:
“We cannot underestimate how much the whole industry changes. And not only in terms of you, it is also a massive accusation against US attempt to stop China's technological development. Without this pressure, Deepseek may not have existed (as they say, necessity is the mother of the invention). ”
Deepseek is based on software, not hardware. A successful recipe in the future.
The generative models of AI are usually fed by graphic processors (GPU) produced by NVIDIA. The chatbots developed by Openai, Google and Anthropic use over half a million such processors. US export restrictions on advanced technology have meant that Deepseek had access to only about 50,000 GPU, which means that it gets comparable results using only 10% of processing power.
According to Wired, this limitation forced the Chinese company to focus on software optimization. Marina Zhang, a professor associated at the Sydney University of Technology, who studies Chinese innovations, explains:
“Unlike many Chinese companies that are based strongly on advanced hardware, Deepseek focused on optimizing resources through software. This Open-Source approach, which combines collective expertise and encourages collaborative innovation, allowed the company to overcome resource constraints and develop peak technologies, differentiating from its more isolated competitors.”
The decrease in US technological actions
The real impact of Deepseek is best seen on the US financial markets. According to the Financial Times, the actions of American Tech companies have been strongly affected. The news about the success of Deepseek has triggered shock waves on the markets, Nvidia losing over $ 300 billion in its market value, the largest decrease registered for a company, because investors have re -evaluated future hardware investments. Also, ASML shares, a European manufacturer of face equipment, decreased by 10%, Microsoft lost 6%, and Meta decreased by 5%. Nasdaq and s indices&P 500 also registered significant decreases.
In conclusion, the quick success of Deepseek not only has shown China's ability to compete in the AI field, but has questioned the US technological supremacy, causing global and expert reactions.
