Apple's Leadership in AI Challenged by China's DeepSeek
DeepSeek, a new Chinese AI chatbot, tops app charts, challenging giants like ChatGPT with efficient, open-source technology.
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Apple's Leadership in AI Challenged by China's DeepSeek
In a surprising turn of events, a new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot challenger called DeepSeek, developed in China, has taken the top spot on Apple's App Store free charts in several countries, including the US. This development has sparked debate about Silicon Valley's presumed dominance in AI research and development. DeepSeek's Rise to Prominence DeepSeek, released last week, has garnered significant attention for its ability to compete with or even surpass the performance of established AI models like ChatGPT. Notably, DeepSeek accomplishes this feat while requiring a fraction of the computational resources typically needed for training such models. According to a research paper published on Monday, DeepSeek's training involved only 2,048 Nvidia H800s and $5.6 million to train a model with 671 billion parameters. This stands in stark contrast to the vast sums of money invested by companies like OpenAI and Google, who have poured billions into training comparab…
