Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: "DeepSeek" - China AI App Shakes Up Tech Markets Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:23:06 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1449534"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:64906 On Mon, 27 Jan 2025, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote: > https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cjr85l2e4l4t > > https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14329549/ai-software-tech-google-openai-deepseek-china-startup.html > > Chinese start-up DeepSeek sent big tech companies into a > spiral with the release of its Artificial Intelligence chatbot. > > DeepSeek's AI Assistant is said to perform on-par with > ChatGPT at a fraction of the price. > > After its release in January 2025, it quickly became the > most-downloaded free app on the Apple Store. > > The US stock market lost $1 trillion overnight as investors > lost confidence in Western dominance in the AI sector. > > . . . > > Chinese developers are very CLEVER, no more > dismissing them. Apparently this system/interface > was built WAY cheaper than possible in the West. > > That our Big AI interests could be so easily > undercut has punished the stock markets - > especially NASDAQ - today. > > It remains to be seen if DeepSeek as "as good" as > Chat and friends - but even if it's just "good > enough" it represents a PROBLEM. > > Somebody DID try feeding it some questions about > China politics ... and it hedged its answers :-) Is it open source? Has anyone compared it fairly? Did china steal the teach and this got a cost advantage? Is it even true? So many questions! Regardless, readers of this newsgroup will not surprised when the AI bubble bursts.