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There’s substantial evidence that what DeepSeek did here is they distilled the knowledge out of OpenAI’s models,
It is true that DeepSeek has shown new ways for AI models to be efficient, and I think our AI companies are going to learn and adopt those efficiency techniques as well,
We know PRC based companies—and others—are constantly trying to distill the models of leading US AI companies,
an OpenAI spokesperson said I think the Chinese companies are catching up very fast,
I think that our AI companies got a little distracted,
We just can’t afford to get distracted by things that don’t matter,
There are still great advantages to having a lot of chips,
This is a wakeup call to the American AI industry,
[A ... A] lot of these open-source apps, open-source models, you can actually sort of use them directly on other platforms. Perplexity is a major U.S. AI company, and they're currently using a version of DeepSeek that you can use that doesn't have the data privacy or security threats,
More and more people will use it, and that will open the door to more and more personal data just being given away to the [Chinese Communist Party] and being sent basically to mainland China to be able to inform them of their activities,
What they'll use it for is behavior change campaigns, disinformation campaigns, for really targeted messaging as to what Western audiences like, what they do,
I think it's incumbent on Western governments — the U.K., Canada, the U.S. — to look and see if it is wise for the Apple store and the Android store to host this large language model when it is so clearly being curated to push Chinese narratives and censorship,
If China is catching up quickly to the US in the AI race, then the economics of AI will be turned on its head,
warned Kathleen Brooks, research director at XTB, in a note to clients They are also aware that Chinese firms have been taking for free lots of open-source tech to advance, ... but they want to create their own, contribute, and prove that their tech is good enough to be taken for free by foreign firms — some nationalism, some engineering pride.”
Xu, the former senior director for global expansion at GitHub, said Monday in a post on X The Chinese companies are able to watch the innovations, make some themselves and then do better engineering,
Lee, a former president of Google China, said at a conference in Saudi Arabia in October If we are to counter America’s AI tech dominance, DeepSeek will definitely be a key member of China’s ‘Avengers team,’
he said in a video on Weibo Our core technical roles are mostly filled by fresh graduates or those with just a year or two of work experience,
he told the Chinese media outlet 36Kr in May 2023, This jaw-dropping breakthrough has come from a purely Chinese company,
said Feng Ji, founder and chief executive of Game Science, the developer behind the hit video game Black Myth: Wukong DeepSeek may be a national-level technological and scientific achievement,
he wrote in a post on the Chinese social media platform Weibo The relationship between the U.S. and China remains tense but crucial,
