Deepsekthe Chinese start-up of artificial intelligenceclimbed the summit of the download ranking onApp Storesurprising analysts for his ability to match the performance of the main American rivals. This “chatbot»The industry of thehigh techin particular the American giants such as Nvidia And Halfwho spent colossal figures to dominate the in full expansion of theTO THE.
And today Deepseek USA has announced that he had suffered “large -scale cyber attacks” and for this reason he declared that he will limit the registration of new users to his services. The company, whose chatbot has exceeded Openai chatgpt as the most downloaded app by Apple today mentioned “large -scale attacks” for interruptions and its inability to acquire new users.
Here’s what you need to know about Deepseek
Deepsek It was designed by a start-up based in Hangzhou (Eastern China), a city known for thehigh concentration of technological companies. Available as an application or on computer, it offers a series of functions similar to those of its western competitors: it can Writing songshelp to face daily situations or suggest a recipe suitable for the content of the refrigerator. Deepsek it is able to communicate in different languages, but has declared toAFP to be competent especially in English and Chinese. However, it shares the limits of many Chinese conversational agents. When asked to talk about sensitive arguments, such as the President Xi Jinpingprefers to avoid the topic and suggests “talking about something else”.
Despite this, its performance, both in the Writing of complex code that in the resolution of difficult mathematical problemssurprised the experts. “What we found is that Deepsek (…) is the best or even with the most performing American models», He told the CNBC Alexandr Wang, CEO of American society Scales to. This success is even more surprising if we consider the resources used. According to an article that describes its development, the model of Deepsek was trained with only one fraction of chip used by his western competitors.
Open Source
Like his western rivals, such as Chatgpt, Llama And Claude, Deepsek it is based on a large linguistic model (Llm), made up of immense quantities of text, to master the Subcliere of natural language. But unlike competitors, which develop ownership models, Deepsek And Open Source. This means that the code of the application is accessible to anyone, allowing you to understand its operation and modify it.
«A non -US company carries out the original mission of Openai: an open and forward -looking research for everyone’s benefit, “said Jim Fan, responsible for the research of Nvidiaup X. Deepsek He claims to be “at the forefront of the open source models” and to rival “the most advanced owner models in the world”. Alexandr Wang Di Scales to he declared on X That Deepsek It is “an alarm bell for America”.
An ‘incredible’ discovery
Many analysts thought that the advantage of United States in the production of high performance chips and their ability to limit the access of the China to this technology would have guaranteed their domain in theTO THE. However, Deepsek claims to have spent alone 5.6 million dollars To develop its model, a negligible sum compared to billions invested by the American giants. The actions of the main US and Japanese technological companies collapsed in the face of the challenge launched by Deepsek. Nvidiaworld leader in the production of components and software for artificial intelligence, saw its title descend by over 3% to Wall Street on Friday. The Japanese giant Softbankkey investor in an American project from 500 billion dollars for the development of infrastructure of Ialost more than 8% today.
Marc Andreessen, investor and close councilor of the President of the United States Donald Trumpdefined Deepsek a turning point “for theTO THE», In the same way that it was the”Sputnik», With reference to the launch of the Soviet satellite that started the race for space during the Cold War. “Deepseek r1 It is one of the most incredible discoveries I’ve ever seen, “he wrote on X.