"DeepSeek has had a lasting impact in half a year, rewriting the industry's way of thinking."

More than six months ago, the Chinese artificial intelligence application DeepSeek emerged suddenly, causing a storm in the global technology community.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) wrote on August 10 that it has been more than six months since DeepSeek shocked the world, and its influence is still ongoing. China was once considered to be lagging behind the United States in the AI field, but due to DeepSeek, it has now become a leader. This not only raised doubts about the US's dominant position in AI, but also changed the way the industry thinks.

The article states that at the beginning of this year, just one week after Trump became the President of the United States, DeepSeek from China stunned Silicon Valley. Overnight, DeepSeek-R1 climbed to the top of the free applications on the Apple App Store. DeepSeek company said that its new chatbot can rival ChatGPT, and the development cost is only a fraction of that of the latter.

This wave of enthusiasm severely hit the American chip giant NVIDIA, causing its market value to drop by $60 billion in a single day, equivalent to a 17% decline, setting a record for the largest single-day loss for a stock in U.S. stock market history. Other American tech companies related to artificial intelligence were also affected, falling into a downward spiral.

The article stated that the rise of DeepSeek has shaken America's dominant position in the field of artificial intelligence. Before this, China was considered to have fallen behind the United States. Now, China seems to have jumped to the forefront. Risk investor Marc Andreessen described the release of DeepSeek-R1 as the "Sputnik moment" of AI, echoing the historical event when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, igniting the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Now, although DeepSeek is no longer a regular headline in major media or a hot topic in the tech circle, its influence has not disappeared.

The article mentioned that DeepSeek challenged the core concept of AI advocated by American executives such as OpenAI CEO Altman. Pursuing extremes in data centers, servers, chips, and power is not the way of the future.

"We used to think that bigger is always better," said Sid Sheth, Chief Operating Officer of AI chip startup d-Matrix, "although DeepSeek seemingly does not use the most advanced technology, it has shown that 'with smarter engineering design, powerful models can indeed be built'."

Some experts have openly stated that the emergence of DeepSeek is a turning point in the Sino-American AI competition, and DeepSeek has overturned people's perceptions.

"Previously, China was seen as a follower in the field of large-scale language models, although it had competitive models, it was behind the top Western ones,"

Wendy Chang, an analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Germany, told BBC, "DeepSeek has demonstrated China's competitiveness in the AI field to the world."

OpenAI invested $5 billion in 2024 alone. In comparison, DeepSeek developers said they developed DeepSeek-R1 with only $5.6 million, surpassing OpenAI's o1 model in multiple benchmark tests.

"DeepSeek has proven that smaller and more efficient models can also provide excellent performance, which has changed the industry's mindset. What we are seeing now is the next wave of this thinking: shifting towards moderately sized models, faster, cheaper, and suitable for large-scale deployment,"

However, while the BBC acknowledged DeepSeek's influence, it also hyped up the so-called risk of "data leaks to the Chinese government," and claimed that despite the "risks," many Americans continue to use DeepSeek, choosing the cheaper AI models over the more expensive ones from American companies.

Such statements are not uncommon, as platforms like TikTok have faced similar defamation. The Chinese government has repeatedly emphasized that it highly values and legally protects data privacy and security, and has never required enterprises or individuals to collect or provide data located abroad in violation of local laws.

The BBC finally stated that although DeepSeek's impact is significant, some major American AI companies still follow the old approach, hoping to gain a leading advantage by building larger data centers, deploying more chips and power.

Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1840252575298695/

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