An AI lab out of China has ignited panic throughout Silicon Valley after releasing AI models that can outperform America's best despite being built more cheaply and with less-powerful chips. DeepSeek unveiled a free, open-source large-language model in late December that it says took only two months and less than $6 million to build. CNBC's Deirdre Bosa interviews Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas and explains why the DeepSeek has raised alarms on whether America's global lead in AI is shrinking.
Not that there’s a need to lie - China is still winning. Deepseek is definitely cheaper, enormously, massively so, and on-par with other latest AI models. I’m not sure it’s totally positive news, because cheaper AI tends to mean more overall spending on AI, but China winning in this space is a definite lesser evil.
The headline is misleading. DeepSeek outperforms some benchmarks by <1%, and underperforms on some by 1-5%.
Not that there’s a need to lie - China is still winning. Deepseek is definitely cheaper, enormously, massively so, and on-par with other latest AI models. I’m not sure it’s totally positive news, because cheaper AI tends to mean more overall spending on AI, but China winning in this space is a definite lesser evil.
P=0.05?