{"id":20896,"date":"2025-01-27T20:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T21:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20896"},"modified":"2025-01-27T21:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T21:24:49","slug":"what-is-deepseek-and-how-is-it-upending-a-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20896","title":{"rendered":"What is DeepSeek? And How Is It Upending A.I.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"article-summary\" class=\"css-79rysd e1wiw3jv0\">How did a little-known Chinese start-up cause the markets and U.S. tech giants to quake? Here\u2019s what to know.<\/p>\n<section class=\"meteredContent css-1r7ky0e\">\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Tech stocks <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/business\/us-stock-market-deepseek-ai-sp500-nvidia.html\" title>tumbled<\/a>. Giant companies like Meta and Nvidia faced a barrage of questions about their future. And tech executives took to social media to proclaim their fears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And it was all because of a little-known Chinese artificial intelligence start-up called <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/23\/technology\/deepseek-china-ai-chips.html\" title>DeepSeek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">DeepSeek caused waves all over the world on Monday as one of its accomplishments \u2014 that it had created a very powerful A.I. model with far less money than many A.I. experts thought possible \u2014 raised a host of questions, including whether U.S. companies were even competitive in A.I. anymore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">DeepSeek is \u201cAI\u2019s Sputnik moment,\u201d Marc Andreessen, a tech venture capitalist, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pmarca\/status\/1883640142591853011\" title rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> on social media on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">How could a company that few people had heard of have such an effect? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"UnstructuredBlock-1\">\n<div class=\"css-1dd11nz e9xetbc2\">\n<h3 class=\"css-nncpar e1gnsphs0\">Here\u2019s what to know about DeepSeek, its technology and its implications.<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"false css-1gfen40 ez3869y0\">\n<li class=\"css-1lg5m92 eoqvrfo0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/technology\/what-is-deepseek-china-ai.html#link-398d0569\">What is DeepSeek?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1lg5m92 eoqvrfo0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/technology\/what-is-deepseek-china-ai.html#link-501791a0\">Why did the stock market react to it now?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1lg5m92 eoqvrfo0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/technology\/what-is-deepseek-china-ai.html#link-86083c0\">Why is that important?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1lg5m92 eoqvrfo0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/technology\/what-is-deepseek-china-ai.html#link-3413b06d\">How did DeepSeek do that?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1lg5m92 eoqvrfo0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/technology\/what-is-deepseek-china-ai.html#link-13dc4543\">Is DeepSeek\u2019s tech as good as systems from OpenAI and Google?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1lg5m92 eoqvrfo0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/technology\/what-is-deepseek-china-ai.html#link-711e172a\">U.S. tech giants are building data centers with specialized A.I. chips. Does this still matter, given what DeepSeek has done?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1lg5m92 eoqvrfo0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/technology\/what-is-deepseek-china-ai.html#link-581181cf\">Hasn\u2019t the United States limited the number of Nvidia chips sold to China?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1lg5m92 eoqvrfo0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/technology\/what-is-deepseek-china-ai.html#link-1d4cd9ec\">Does DeepSeek\u2019s tech mean that China is now ahead of the United States in A.I.?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1lg5m92 eoqvrfo0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/technology\/what-is-deepseek-china-ai.html#link-1f335ff8\">What exactly is open-source A.I.?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1lg5m92 eoqvrfo0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/technology\/what-is-deepseek-china-ai.html#link-86083c0\">Why is that important?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"Dropzone-2\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-398d0569\">What is DeepSeek?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">DeepSeek is a start-up founded and owned by the Chinese stock trading firm High-Flyer. Its goal is to build A.I. technologies along the lines of OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT chatbot or Google\u2019s Gemini. By 2021, DeepSeek had acquired thousands of computer chips from the U.S. chipmaker Nvidia, which are a fundamental part of any effort to create powerful A.I. systems<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In China, the start-up is known for grabbing young and talented A.I. researchers from top universities, promising high salaries and an opportunity to work on cutting-edge research projects. 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Here\u2019s what to know.Tech stocks tumbled. Giant companies like Meta and Nvidia faced a barrage of questions about their future. And tech executives took to social media to proclaim their fears.And it was all because of a little-known Chinese artificial intelligence start-up called DeepSeek.DeepSeek caused waves all over the world on Monday as one of its accomplishments \u2014 that it had created a very powerful A.I. model with far less money than many A.I. experts thought possible \u2014 raised a host of questions, including whether U.S. companies were even competitive in A.I. anymore.DeepSeek is \u201cAI\u2019s Sputnik moment,\u201d Marc Andreessen, a tech venture capitalist, posted on social media on Sunday.How could a company that few people had heard of have such an effect? Here\u2019s what to know about DeepSeek, its technology and its implications.What is DeepSeek?Why did the stock market react to it now?Why is that important?How did DeepSeek do that?Is DeepSeek\u2019s tech as good as systems from OpenAI and Google?U.S. tech giants are building data centers with specialized A.I. chips. Does this still matter, given what DeepSeek has done?Hasn\u2019t the United States limited the number of Nvidia chips sold to China?Does DeepSeek\u2019s tech mean that China is now ahead of the United States in A.I.?What exactly is open-source A.I.?Why is that important?What is DeepSeek?DeepSeek is a start-up founded and owned by the Chinese stock trading firm High-Flyer. Its goal is to build A.I. technologies along the lines of OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT chatbot or Google\u2019s Gemini. By 2021, DeepSeek had acquired thousands of computer chips from the U.S. chipmaker Nvidia, which are a fundamental part of any effort to create powerful A.I. systemsIn China, the start-up is known for grabbing young and talented A.I. researchers from top universities, promising high salaries and an opportunity to work on cutting-edge research projects. Both High-Flyer and DeepSeek are run by Liang Wenfeng, a Chinese entrepreneur.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. 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