A assistant who is created by Chinese startup company Deepseek has become the most downloaded application on Apple's App Store in the US over the weekend, causing a shock wave throughout Silicon Valley and causing the price of large technology stocks. Nvidia has seen more 460 billion USD Deleted from market capitalization on Monday, the reduction of Bloomberg described as “the biggest in the history of the US stock market”.
This change stems from an open source model developed by Deepseek called R1, launched earlier this month. The company said they are competing with the current leading company: Openai's 01. But what makes the most stunned technology industry is Deepseek claiming to have built its model with only a small part of the specialized computer chip that AI companies often need to develop advanced systems.
On Monday, Deepseek said they were temporarily restricting their new registration, with the reason that “large -scale toxic attacks” into the company's services, according to a report. message On its website.
The R1 model of Deepseek “challenges the view that Western companies hold a significant leading position compared to Chinese companies,” said Jack Clark, co -founder of AITropic startup, for know. written In my newsletter. Advanced investor Marc Andressen call It was “whose Sputnik moment.”
Cheng Lu, a researcher at Openai, said Deepseek's chatbot showed impressive Chinese talk skills. “This is the first time I can feel the beauty of the Chinese language created by chatbot,” he said In a post x On Sunday.
Deepseek AI assistant is now provided free of charge and has three main functions. First, users can ask questions for chatbot and receive direct answers. For example, when Wired requested the idea of a recipe combined with pomegranate seeds, Deepseek's chatbot quickly provided a list of 15 different options, from yogurt parfait to mixed rice dish “inspired by the middle Dong ”, but it does not quote any specific chefs or recipes.
Deepseek's application also has a search mode to display answers from the Internet. When Wired asked, “What important news today?” Deepseek's chatbot quoted a ceasefire between Israel-Hamas and associated with some Western news agencies such as BBC News, but it didn't seem like all stories were related to this topic. Ironically, one of them is the story in the New York Times about the impact of Deepseek on the stock market.
Finally, there is a “Deepthink” mode that allows users to exploit the R1 model of Deepseek, built on the company's existing model. Model V3. The difference between these two types is that R1 has the so -called “theoretical” ability that allows it to explain every step of the way it comes to conclusions. For example, when asked “What are the most important historical events of the 20th century?” Deepseek initially gave a long answer, starting with some broad questions.
“It's been a hundred years, so there are many things that happened,” part of its answer. “Perhaps I should split it over a decade or the main topics such as war, political change, technological progress, social movement, etc.” Deepseek's chatbot then continued to mention World War I Two, Cold War and Holocaust.
But before R1 finished answering, the entire answer has disappeared and was replaced by a notice with the content “Sorry, I do not know how to approach this type of question. Instead, talk about mathematics, encryption and logic issues! ” Some experts and people apply early Attention That Deepseek, like other technology platforms operating in China, seem Spacious censorship The topics are considered sensitive by the Chinese Communist Party
But despite these limitations, Deepseek's free chatbot can cause serious threats to competitors like Openai, which is charged 20 USD per month to access their most powerful AI models. . Unlike Chinese partners, Openai does not reveal the basic “weight” of models, factors determine how to process information. It also refused to publicize the whole “chain of thought“Created by its own theoretical models.