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US President Trump Labels China's DeepSeek AI Leap as "Wake-Up Call" for US Tech Industry
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DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, has caused a significant stir in the US tech industry. The company's release of its R1 model, which was developed at a fraction of the cost of its rivals, has led to a sharp decline in shares of major tech firms such as Nvidia, with a loss of almost $600 billion. The news has been described as a "wake-up call" by US President Donald Trump, who believes it should prompt the US tech industry to re-evaluate its priorities and compete more effectively.
That's good because you don't have to spend as much money.
The release of DeepSeek, AI from a Chinese company, should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win.
We should take the developments out of China very, very seriously.
We will obviously deliver much better models and also it's legit invigorating to have a new competitor. We will pull up some releases.
DeepSeek's R1 is an impressive model, particularly around what they're able to deliver for the price.
Now the top AI concern has to be ensuring (the United States) wins.
DeepSeek's ability to rival US models despite limited access to advanced hardware demonstrates that software ingenuity and data efficiency can compensate for hardware constraints.
If China is catching up quickly to the US in the AI race, then the economics of AI will be turned on its head.
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countries
- 1.China
- 2.Hong Kong
- 3.Japan
- 4.Korea, Republic of
- 5.Netherlands
- 6.Taiwan, Province of China
- 7.United States
organizations
- 1.Nvidia
- 2.OpenAI
- 3.SoftBank
- 4.Meta
- 5.Advantest
- 6.Apple
- 7.Google
- 8.Microsoft
- 9.Nasdaq
- 10.Scale AI
- 11.Tokyo Electron
- 12.University of Technology Sydney
persons
- 1.Donald Trump
- 2.Sam Altman
- 3.Elon Musk
- 4.Liang Wenfeng
- 5.Marc Andreessen
- 6.Adam Kovacevich
- 7.David Sacks
- 8.Ipek Ozkardeskaya
- 9.Jensen Huang
- 10.Joe Biden
- 11.Kathleen Brooks
- 12.Li Qiang