{"id":20650,"date":"2025-01-23T09:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T10:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20650"},"modified":"2025-01-23T10:24:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T10:24:30","slug":"how-chinese-a-i-start-up-deepseek-is-competing-with-openai-and-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20650","title":{"rendered":"How Chinese A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek Is Competing With OpenAI and Google"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The company built a cheaper, competitive chatbot with fewer high-end computer chips than U.S. behemoths like Google and OpenAI, showing the limits of chip export control.<\/p>\n

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The day after Christmas, a small Chinese start-up called DeepSeek unveiled a new A.I. system that could match the capabilities of cutting-edge chatbots from companies like OpenAI and Google.<\/p>\n

That alone would have been a milestone. But the team behind the system, called DeepSeek-V3, described an even bigger step. In a research paper<\/a> explaining how they built the technology, DeepSeek\u2019s engineers said they used only a fraction of the highly specialized computer chips that leading A.I. companies relied on to train their systems.<\/p>\n

These chips are at the center of a tense technological competition between the United States and China. As the U.S. government works to maintain the country\u2019s lead in the global A.I. race, it is trying to limit the number of powerful chips, like those made by Silicon Valley firm Nvidia, that can be sold to China and other rivals.<\/p>\n

But the performance of the DeepSeek model raises questions about the unintended consequences of the American government\u2019s trade restrictions. The controls have forced researchers in China to get creative with a wide range of tools that are freely available on the internet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The DeepSeek chatbot answered questions, solved logic problems and wrote its own computer programs as capably as anything already on the market, according to the benchmark tests that American A.I. companies have been using.<\/p>\n

And it was created on the cheap, challenging the prevailing idea that only the tech industry\u2019s biggest companies \u2014 all of them based in the United States \u2014 could afford to make the most advanced A.I. systems. The Chinese engineers said they needed only about $6 million in raw computing power to build their new system. That is about 10 times less than the tech giant Meta spent building its latest A.I. technology.<\/p>\n

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The company built a cheaper, competitive chatbot with fewer high-end computer chips than U.S. behemoths like Google and OpenAI, showing the limits of chip export control.The day after Christmas, a small Chinese start-up called DeepSeek unveiled a new A.I. system that could match the capabilities of cutting-edge chatbots from companies like OpenAI and Google.That alone would have been a milestone. But the team behind the system, called DeepSeek-V3, described an even bigger step. In a research paper explaining how they built the technology, DeepSeek\u2019s engineers said they used only a fraction of the highly specialized computer chips that leading A.I. companies relied on to train their systems.These chips are at the center of a tense technological competition between the United States and China. As the U.S. government works to maintain the country\u2019s lead in the global A.I. race, it is trying to limit the number of powerful chips, like those made by Silicon Valley firm Nvidia, that can be sold to China and other rivals.But the performance of the DeepSeek model raises questions about the unintended consequences of the American government\u2019s trade restrictions. The controls have forced researchers in China to get creative with a wide range of tools that are freely available on the internet.The DeepSeek chatbot answered questions, solved logic problems and wrote its own computer programs as capably as anything already on the market, according to the benchmark tests that American A.I. companies have been using.And it was created on the cheap, challenging the prevailing idea that only the tech industry\u2019s biggest companies \u2014 all of them based in the United States \u2014 could afford to make the most advanced A.I. systems. The Chinese engineers said they needed only about $6 million in raw computing power to build their new system. That is about 10 times less than the tech giant Meta spent building its latest A.I. technology.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20652,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20653,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20650\/revisions\/20653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}