China's new DeepSeek R1 language model has been shaking things up by reportedly matching or even beating the performance of established rivals including OpenAI while using far fewer GPUs. Nvidia's response?
While companies like DeepSeek may find success in certain market segments, they face an uphill battle against this massive capital advantage. In other words, claims that demand for Nvidia's premium chips will collapse simply don't align with market realities and the trajectory of AI development.
Got the impression that a bazillion dollar's worth of GPUs are required to run a cutting-edge chatbot? Think again. Matthew Carrigan, an engineer at AI tools outfit HuggingFace, claims that you can run the hot new DeepSeek R1 LLM on just $6,000 of PC hardware. The kicker? You don't even need a high-end GPU.
For now, it's unclear how resource intensive the Qwen 2.5-Max is or is not. The thing that really rattled the markets when it comes to DeepSeek R1 arguably isn't its outright perf
Did the upstart Chinese tech company DeepSeek copy ChatGPT to make the artificial intelligence technology that shook Wall Street this week?
In what marks the largest single-day drop in stock market history, Nvidia's valuation has been hit by China's answer to ChatGPT.
DeepSeek claims it costs them less than $6 million to train its latest AI models, while it costs ChatGPT $100 million. DeepSeek is able to charge only $0.14 per 1 million input tokens, compared to $15 at OpenAI. Token input pricing has to do with the amount of text that goes into training the AI language models.
The DeepSeek chatbot, known as R1, responds to user queries just like its U.S.-based counterparts. Early testing released by DeepSeek suggests that its quality rivals that of other AI products, while the company says it costs less and uses far fewer specialized chips than do its competitors.
The startup DeepSeek was founded in 2023 in Hangzhou, China and released its first AI large language model later that year. Its CEO Liang Wenfeng previously co-founded one of China’s top hedge funds, High-Flyer, which focuses on AI-driven quantitative trading.
NVIDIA, the world's most valuable company until Monday, lost $600 billion of market value in a single day, the biggest in US stock history.
Tempo conducted a test of the ChatGPT and DeepSeek AI chatbots using the same commands. Check out the comparison of the results.