AI industry in panic after China’s DeepSeek overtakes ChatGPT and Meta

Ruining programme has prompted a frantic reaction from leading American companies and led to warnings of a worldwide AI arms race.

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DeepSeek-R1 outperforms its competitors in several crucial areas, plus it can be trained and developed at a significantly lower cost.

Its capabilities led to it topping the charts on Apple's App Store, surpassing ChatGPT as the most highly-rated free application in the US.

On the Blind employment forum, a Meta employee wrote an anonymous post, saying that the company's AI division was in a state of "panic" related to DeepSeek.

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The management is concerned about justifying the significant costs associated with this organisation. How would they explain the situation to the top-tier executives when the head of this research organization, who are among the highest paid, are earning more than the entire budget for training DeepSeek v3, and there are numerous individuals in this position.

Experts from Silicon Valley have cautioned that the supremacy of the US' large technology companies is facing a challenge from DeepSeek, a cost-effective alternative to the current methods used to develop artificial intelligence.

DeepSeek was having a major impact on the worldwide tech sector and escalating tensions in the artificial intelligence arms race.

"This innovation's launch marks a significant turning point in the distribution of technological dominance," he said.

Advances in technology, notably in AI, are increasingly undermining the US's capacity to rely on tariffs as a means of safeguarding its position as a global leader... This shift affects more than just a single company; it heralds a broader transformation of the global economic landscape. This is arguably the most striking indication to date of the direction the future is taking.

Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun acknowledged the surge of DeepSeek, but suggested it's more of a showcase for the full potential of open-source models rather than a serious threat.

"He notes that open-source models are beating proprietary ones," he wrote in a post to Threads.

DeepSeek has flourished thanks to the benefits of collaborative, open-source research... They've developed new concepts and constructed upon the foundations laid by others. As a result of making their work freely available, the entire community can reap the rewards. This highlights the potential of open research and open-source innovation.

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