DeepSeek's Rise: Challenging Tech Titans and Shifting Market Dynamics
DeepSeek's unprecedented success is shaking up the AI sector, drawing attention from industry leaders like Sam Altman of OpenAI and Nvidia. While Altman praises the competition and maintains AGI remains a long-term vision, Nvidia recognizes DeepSeek's use of their GPUs as illustrating important advancements in AI scalability.
AGI Ambitions and Market Shifts: DeepSeek Stirs the AI World
A Surge in Attention
DeepSeek is swiftly becoming a sensation, captivating AI enthusiasts, cyber threat analysts, and financial traders alike. This burgeoning popularity rivals established platforms such as ChatGPT, resulting in substantial user engagement and technical challenges like performance slowdowns.
Sam Altman's Response
Amidst the growing chatter, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has acknowledged DeepSeek R1's prowess. He praised the model for its cost-effective capabilities and embraced the burgeoning competition, stating that OpenAI has superior models in the pipeline. On his X account, Altman expressed:
deepseek's r1 is an impressive model, particularly around what they're able to deliver for the price. we will obviously deliver much better models and also it's legit invigorating to have a new competitor! we will pull up some releases.
but mostly we are excited to continue to execute on our research roadmap and believe more compute is more important now than ever before to succeed at our mission. the world is going to want to use a LOT of ai, and really be quite amazed by the next gen models coming.
look forward to bringing you all AGI and beyond.
Interestingly, while Altman's current tone is optimistic, just a week prior, he urged caution, declaring that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) remains a distant goal. OpenAI, he mentioned, is not poised to launch AGI imminently:
twitter hype is out of control again.
we are not gonna deploy AGI next month, nor have we built it.
we have some very cool stuff for you but pls chill and cut your expectations 100x!
Nvidia's Strategic Position
Nvidia has also taken notice of DeepSeek's success, especially in light of a recent $450 billion loss in market value. A spokesperson for Nvidia acknowledged DeepSeek's impact in an email to CNBC, noting:
DeepSeek is an excellent AI advancement and a perfect example of Test Time Scaling. DeepSeek’s work illustrates how new models can be created using that technique, leveraging widely-available models and compute that is fully export control compliant.
Inference requires significant numbers of NVIDIA GPUs and high-performance networking. We now have three scaling laws: pre-training and post-training, which continue, and new test-time scaling.
The affirmation that Nvidia GPUs power DeepSeek's software provides optimism for Nvidia and its investors and offers a competitive edge against other hardware players like AMD.
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