| DeepSeek has turned the tech world upside down. The low-cost, tiny Chinese company has developed AI chatbots at just a fraction of the cost of the major players in the industry. |
Jan.28 (DPnet).– A surprisingly powerful and efficient Chinese AI model created a year ago has overtaken the tech sector by storm. It is known as DeepSeek R1. This is a breakthrough AI product of a startup business that has somehow managed a market commotion that famed tech investor Marc Andreessen has called “AI’s Sputnik moment”: R1 can nearly match the capabilities of its far more famous rivals, including OpenAI’s GPT-4, Meta’s Llama and Google’s Gemini — but at a fraction of the cost.
On Monday, DeepSeek, a tiny company that reportedly employs no more than 200 people, caused American chipmaker Nvidia to have almost $600bn wiped off its market value – the biggest drop in US stock market history. The startup was founded in 2023 in Hangzhou, China, by Liang Wenfeng, who previously co-founded one of China's top hedge funds, High-Flyer.
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It’s no surprise, then, that artificial intelligence dominated the space this year, given the boom in this technology. This has propelled firms to capitalize on AI interest—especially from businesses. A poll from consultancy Accenture out on Monday revealed that 58% of executives expect generative AI solutions to be adopted at scale within the organization in 2025.
Tiene 76 años y le acaban de otorgar el Nobel de Física. Lo llaman "el padrino de la inteligencia artificial" porque sin su visionario trabajo no existirían ni ChatGPT ni los otros chatbots que están revolucionando el mundo. Un genio entre genios. Durante más de diez años, Hinton solo podía estar de pie o tumbado por un problema en la espalda. Ahora, tras una cirugía, vuelve a sentarse y a viajar en avión. Pertenece a una familia de genios académicos; entre ellos, su tatarabuelo, el matemático George Boole, quien inspiró el código binario que hoy rige todos los ordenadores. Ahora, sin embargo, Hinton ha dejado Silicon Valley para advertirnos: «estamos creando un monstruo que amenaza la humanidad». Nos explica por qué.