What is DeepSeek and how does it compare to ChatGPT? Chinese AI climbs to top of iPhone app chart
What is DeepSeek and how does it compare to ChatGPT? Chinese AI climbs to top of iPhone app chart
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China is making waves in the world of artificial intelligence with a ChatGPT rival that runs at a fraction of the cost of OpenAI’s bot – and has now surpassed it on Apple’s app charts. A small Chinese AI startup called DeepSeek recently launched a pair of open-source models, claiming they can compete with OpenAI and Meta's top systems in several key performance tests.
Taking on US tech firms, DeepSeek offers free access to advanced features that are locked behind a premium subscription on ChatGPT, including the most advanced models, web-search capabilities, and file uploads. The subsequent buzz around the bot has sent DeepSeek’s self-titled app to the top of the Apple App Store charts in the UK and US.
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Here’s what you need to know about the AI that has Silicon Valley in panic mode. DeepSeek’s AI looks and functions much like ChatGPT and other large-language models. It can answer questions, generate poetry and prose, and write complex code (the programming language used to build everything from apps to websites).
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What sets it apart, however, is that DeepSeek claims to offer all of these functions (along with a few others) at a level comparable to its larger rivals, and all at a significantly lower cost. Notably, DeepSeek achieved all this under the constraints of strict US export controls on advanced computing tech in China. As restrictions from the Biden administration started to bite, the Chinese firm was forced to get resourceful, building its models with fewer and far less powerful Nvidia AI chips.
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