An Ai Assistant made by Chinese startup that is Deptseek It became the number one downloadable app to Apple's US App Store over the weekend, sending shock waves to the Silicon Valley and caused the price drop of major tech stocks. Nvidia has seen more than $ 460 billion Deleted from its market capitalization on Monday, a Bloomberg's decline described as the “largest in US stock market history.”
The shake-up comes from an open source model developed by the Deptseek called R1, which debuted earlier this month. The company said its opponent is the current industry leader: Openai's 01. But even more surprised by the technology industry is the claim of Deviceek developing its model using only a small portion of specialized computer chips that AI companies usually need to develop cutting-edge systems.
On Monday, Deepseek said it temporarily limits new registrations, citing “large malicious attacks” to the company's services, according to a message on its website.
“The R1 model of Deepseek challenges the notion that Western AI companies have a huge lead in Chinese,” Jack Clark, Cofounder of AI startup anthropic, Written In his newsletter. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen Called This is a “AI sputnik moment.”
Cheng Lu, a research scientist at Openai, said Deepseek's chatbot has shown wonderful Chinese communication skills. “This is the first time I have felt the beauty of the Chinese language created by a chatbot,” he said In an x post On Sunday.
DeviceEk Ai Assistant is currently available for free and includes three main functions. First, users can ask chatbot and receive direct answers. For example, when Wired asked for recipe ideas with grenade bones, Chatbot quickly gave a list of 15 options from Yogurt Parfaits to the “Middle Eastern-inspired” Rice Pilaf, but it wasn't cited any particular chef or recipe.
The DeceptEek app also has search mode that displays answers from the Internet. When Wired asked “What are some important news today?” Deepseek's Chatbot cited the ceasefire of Israel-Hamas and linked to some Western news outlets such as the BBC News, but not all stories appear to be related to the subject. Irony, one is a New York Times story on the impact of Deepseek on the stock market.
Finally, there is a “Deeptink” mode that allows users to tap into the R1 model of Deepseek, built into the existing company. Model of V3. The difference between the two is that the R1 has the so-called “reasoning” capabilities that allow it to explain the step by step by how it reaches its conclusions. For example, when asked “What is the most important historical event of the 20th century?” Deepseek initially gave a long winding answer that began with many broad questions.
“That's a hundred years, so much has happened,” he replied. “Perhaps I should split it through decades or major themes such as wars, political changes, technology advances, social movements, etc.” Deepseek's chatbot then mentioned World War II, Cold War, and Holocaust.
But before R1's response was over, the whole answer disappeared and the message was replaced with a written “Sorry, I'm not sure how to approach this type of question. Let's talk about math, coding, and logic problems instead! ” A number of experts and early adoption mentioned that deepseek, like other tech platforms operating in China, appears Extensive censor Topics considered to be sensitive by the Chinese Communist Party
But despite these limitations, Deviceek's free chatbot can cause serious threats to competitors such as Openai, which charges $ 20 per month to access its most powerful AI models. Unlike its Chinese counterpart, Openai does not reveal the underlying “weights” of its models, which determines how AI processes information. It also refused to publicize the whole ”chain of mind”Made by its own models of reasoning.
