‘Cheap’ Chinese chatbot shocks AI world happymamay

The Chinese artificial intelligence application surpassed Chatgpt and other competitors to become the highest -rating free app on the Apple App Store in the United States, the United Kingdom and China.

The rise of its popularity has sold the shares of companies related to artificial intelligence, based in the United States. The shares of NVIDIA, Microsoft and Meta fell on Monday morning, and the development led to the low prices of European stocks.

The popularity of application has increased since its launch, which is a challenge to the prevailing belief that the United States is the leading pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, and raises questions about the size of investments that American companies plan.

It is supported by an open source Deepseek -V3 model, and its researchers say it has been developed at less than 6 million dollars – and it is much lower than the billions spent by the competitors.

But this claim was disputed by others in the field of artificial intelligence.

Deepseek comes at a time when the United States is restricting the sale of advanced chip technology that supports China’s artificial intelligence.

To continue their work without fixed supplies of imported advanced chips, Chinese artificial intelligence developers shared their work with each other and tried new technology methods.

This has led to the emergence of artificial intelligence models that require much lower computer energy than before. This also means that its cost is much less than what was previously believed, which may lead to the heart of the industry upside down.

After the launch of DeepSeek -R1 earlier this month, the company boasted “on an equal performance with” one of the latest Openai models that make Chatgpt – when using tasks such as mathematics, programming and thinking about the natural language.

Mark Andrink, the adventurous capitalist in the Silicon Valley and the Donald Trump advisor, described Deepseek-R1 as “Sputnik’s moment of artificial intelligence”, referring to the satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.

At that time, the United States was seen as surprised by the technological achievement of its competitor.

I amazed the popularity of Deepseek markets. ASML, the Dutch company for chip equipment industry, witnessed a decrease in its share price by more than 10%, while the shares of Siemens Energy, which manufactures devices related to artificial intelligence, decreased by 21%.

“The idea of ​​the low -cost Chinese version was not necessarily in the foreground, so the market surprised a little,” said Fiona Cinnokota, the chief market analyst in City Index.

“So, if you suddenly get this low -cost artificial intelligence model, this will cause concerns about competitors’ profits, especially given the amount they have already invested in a more expensive infrastructure for artificial intelligence.”

“This is likely to hinder the state of investment in the entire artificial intelligence supply chain,” Serin Ling, based in Singapore, told the BBC.

But the Giant City Banking company in Wall Street warned that while Deepseek can challenge the dominant parking lots of American companies such as Openai, the problems facing Chinese companies can hinder their development.

“We appreciate that it is in an inevitable more restricted environment, the US arrival in the most advanced chips is an advantage,” its analysts said in a report.

Last week, a consortium of American technology companies and foreign investors announced Stargate project, A company invests $ 500 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure in Texas.

The company was founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng in Hangzhou, a city in southeast China.

He also established the 40 -year -old, a graduate of information and electronics engineering, the hedge fund that supports Deepseek.

he It is said I created a NVIDA A100 chips, now banned exporting to China. Experts believe that this group – which some estimates indicate that it reaches 50 thousand – leads to the launch of Deepseek, by combining these chips with cheaper and lowest slices that are still available for import.

Liang was recently seen at a meeting between industry experts and Chinese heads of State Lee Qiang.

In an interview conducted in July 2024 with China AcademyMr. Liang said he was surprised by the reaction to the previous version of his artificial intelligence model.

He said: “We did not expect the pricing to be a sensitive issue to this extent.”

“We simply followed our own pace, calculated costs, and set prices accordingly.”

Joao Da Silva and Derbel Jordan participated in the coverage.

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