DeepSeek Sends Artificial Intelligence (AI) Giants Plunging. Here's What You May Want to Do Now

Tech giants around the globe were rattled on Jan. 27 after Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek unveiled an impressive, low-cost artificial intelligence (AI) model, sparking widespread concerns about the scale of investment being poured into expensive hardware and data centers.DeepSeek released a free AI assistant last week that quickly saw its downloads overtake OpenAI's ChatGPT on the Apple App Store in the U.S. The Chinese start-up claims the free, open-source large language model known as V3 took just two months to train and cost less than $6 million. What's more, DeepSeek claims its latest cost-effective model, the R1, can match the performance of OpenAI's o1 reasoning model on certain benchmarks.The company also claims R1 is 20 to 50 times cheaper to use than o1. The advent of this cheaper model hammered the shares of tech giants that have been investing billions of dollars in AI infrastructure.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool