{"id":20978,"date":"2025-01-28T14:07:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20978"},"modified":"2025-01-28T16:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:23:57","slug":"how-deepseek-went-from-stock-trader-to-a-i-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20978","title":{"rendered":"How DeepSeek Went From Stock Trader to A.I. Star"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The little-known artificial intelligence firm has emphasized research, even as it emerged as the brainchild of a hedge fund.<\/p>\n

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Two years ago, when big-name Chinese technology companies like Baidu and Alibaba were chasing Silicon Valley\u2019s advances in artificial intelligence with splashy announcements and new chatbots, DeepSeek took a different approach. It zeroed in on research.<\/p>\n

The strategy paid off.<\/p>\n

The Chinese start-up has jolted the tech world with its claim that it created a powerful A.I. model that was significantly cheaper to build than the offerings of its better-funded American rivals.<\/p>\n

In the rivalry between China and the United States over domination of artificial intelligence, DeepSeek seemed to come out of nowhere. In fact, it has skyrocketed through China\u2019s tech world in recent years with a path that was anything but conventional.<\/p>\n

Its mission to pursue research mirrors that of companies like OpenAI, the Silicon Valley firm that marked an American signature over A.I. in the fall of 2022. But the similarities mostly end there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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DeepSeek\u2019s origins are in finance, not technology for technology\u2019s sake. Its parent company, a Chinese hedge fund called High-Flyer, began not as a laboratory devoted to safeguarding humanity from A.I. like Open AI, but as a business using A.I. to make bets in the Chinese stock market.<\/p>\n

High-Flyer had thrived by capitalizing on a market dominated by China\u2019s retail investors, who are known for jumping in and out of stocks impulsively. In 2021, High-Flyer found itself pressured by regulatory crackdowns in China on speculative trading, which the authorities in Beijing felt was at odds with their attempts to keep markets calm.<\/p>\n

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The little-known artificial intelligence firm has emphasized research, even as it emerged as the brainchild of a hedge fund.Two years ago, when big-name Chinese technology companies like Baidu and Alibaba were chasing Silicon Valley\u2019s advances in artificial intelligence with splashy announcements and new chatbots, DeepSeek took a different approach. It zeroed in on research.The strategy paid off.The Chinese start-up has jolted the tech world with its claim that it created a powerful A.I. model that was significantly cheaper to build than the offerings of its better-funded American rivals.In the rivalry between China and the United States over domination of artificial intelligence, DeepSeek seemed to come out of nowhere. In fact, it has skyrocketed through China\u2019s tech world in recent years with a path that was anything but conventional.Its mission to pursue research mirrors that of companies like OpenAI, the Silicon Valley firm that marked an American signature over A.I. in the fall of 2022. But the similarities mostly end there.DeepSeek\u2019s origins are in finance, not technology for technology\u2019s sake. Its parent company, a Chinese hedge fund called High-Flyer, began not as a laboratory devoted to safeguarding humanity from A.I. like Open AI, but as a business using A.I. to make bets in the Chinese stock market.High-Flyer had thrived by capitalizing on a market dominated by China\u2019s retail investors, who are known for jumping in and out of stocks impulsively. In 2021, High-Flyer found itself pressured by regulatory crackdowns in China on speculative trading, which the authorities in Beijing felt was at odds with their attempts to keep markets calm.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":20980,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20978","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\/20978","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=20978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20981,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20978\/revisions\/20981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}