According to a VNA correspondent in Washington, the DeepSeek artificial intelligence application of a Chinese startup has caused a big shock in the US market. Immediately after its announcement, this application surpassed ChatGPT to rank number one in Apple's App Store.
Despite the US embargo on semiconductor chip exports, Chinese companies have successfully developed low-cost, high-performance artificial intelligence (AI) models. The impressive launch of DeepSeek, founded by Mr. Liang Wenfeng, caused the stocks of US technology giants such as NVIDIA to plummet.
On the New York Stock Exchange on January 27 (local time), NVIDIA shares fell sharply by 17%, while TSMC (Taiwan) fell by 13%. The decline in AI stocks dragged down the New York Stock Exchange. The NASDAQ index plunged 3%, and the S&P 500 index fell nearly 1.5%. Billionaires with assets related to artificial intelligence suffered the most losses on the first day of the week, such as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose assets fell by $20.1 billion, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, who lost $22.6 billion, CEO Michael Dell, who lost $13 billion, and Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao, who lost $12.1 billion.
Last week, DeepSeek announced its “R1” AI model, which is similar in functionality to ChatGPT, OpenAI’s generative AI model. While OpenAI and Meta spent billions of dollars to develop, DeepSeek cost just $5.6 million. Unable to import expensive new NVIDIA semiconductors, the Chinese startup had to replace them with cheaper older ones.
Experts say DeepSeek’s AI model will be a new turning point in artificial intelligence innovation. There are growing concerns that the position of American technology giants in the AI market is shaky. The US embargo has had the opposite effect, forcing Chinese companies to actively develop low-cost AI models.
Mathew Oldham, Meta's director of AI infrastructure, said DeepSeek's new model could outperform the next version of Llama AI, which is expected to be released in early 2025. Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, said DeepSeek's success showed that open-source AI models are outperforming proprietary products.
Regarding the AI storm from China, US President Donald Trump on January 27 assessed this as a "positive thing" and a wake-up call for the US industry when everyone wants to spend less money but get the same results.
According to VNA
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