DeepSeek Impact Goes Beyond OpenAl

The effects of DeepSeek’s advancements have sent shockwaves throughout the global tech market, including China.

DeepSeek is a start-up founded and owned by the Chinese stock trading firm, High-Flyer.

It’s aimed at creating AI technologies similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and Google’s Gemini.

The launch of this highly sophisticated Al model is currently making impacts in China, as big Tech Companies are now feeling the effect.

China’s top tech firms are hastening to adopt the DeepSeek open-source model, integrating it into their own chatbot services.

Huawei, the telecommunication giant, revealed its plans to integrate DeepSeek on its own computing hardware, powered by domestically produced Ascend computer processors.

AI experts believe this development signals a shift in the industry, as it shows that DeepSeek can run efficiently without relying on Nvidia’s most advanced chips.

A research by analysts in Bernstein, wrote “This partnership defies U.S. sanctions by proving China can deliver globally competitive Al performance using domestically developed Al hardware and software stack, replacing Nvidia chips with Ascend chips”.

The Biden Administration has been trying to limit China’s access to advanced technology since late 2022, fearing it could be used to develop new weapons and Al systems.

However, the success of DeepSeek’s new R1 Al model, which was trained at a lower cost than similar models, suggests that blocking China’s access to advanced computer chips may not be enough to slow down their progress.

Rush Among Chinese Tech Companies to Integrate DeepSeeks Technology

Deepseek has become so popular to the extent that top Chinese Al chipmakers, including Beyond Chipmakers and so on, have expressed their support for the firm by integrating the Al model on their own computing chips.

Some of China’s biggest tech companies, including Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and TikTok, have started offering DeepSeek’s Al service on their cloud platforms.

Additionally, major telecom companies like Lenovo and Geely have also integrated DeepSeek’s technology into their products and services.

Lian Jye Su, chief analyst at Omdia, a technology research firm, said “It serves as recognition for open-source large-model companies. If your model is good enough, Al giants will integrate it into their platforms”.

These big companies, despite having their own similar products have chosen to work with DeepSeek.

Notwithstanding DeepSeek’s popularity, several countries, including Taiwan, Australia, South Korea, and Italy, have banned or raised concerns about DeepSeek’s Al service due to data security and privacy risks.