Two years ago, Deepseek took another approach when famous Chinese technology companies like Baidu and Alibaba were following Slashy Ancountements and a new chatbot of silicon valley in artificial intelligence. It became zero in the research.
The strategy was rewarded.
China has shaken the high -tech world with a claim that it has created a powerful AI model that was much cheaper than the provision of high -quality American rivals.
Deep seeks seem to have come out of nowhere in competition between China and the United States on the control of artificial intelligence. In fact, in recent years, the world of high -tech in China has soared, and it has been on a road other than the conventional one.
The mission of pursuing research reflects a company like Openai, a Silicon Valley company that marks the signature of the United States over AI in the fall of 2022, but the similarities are almost over.
The origin of DeepSeek is not in technology for technology, but in finance. The Chinese hedge fund called the parent company, HIGH-FLYER, is not a lab that focuses on protecting AI humanity like AI, but as a business that uses AI to bet on the Chinese stock market. I did it.
The high flyer was prosperous by utilizing the market dominated by Chinese retail investors, known for impulsively entering the stock. In 2021, the high flyer noticed that Beijing's authorities were under pressure on China's regulations on speculative transactions that felt that they were in conflict with the market.
Therefore, the high flyer pursued a new opportunity and said that it was better as the priority of the Chinese government: advanced AI.
“We want to do things beyond the greater value and investment industry, but we are misunderstood as AI stock speculation,” said Lu Zhengzhe, a luxury highest executive manager. I talked to the Chinese national media. A new team that is independent of investment. This is equivalent to the second startup. “
DeepSeek was born. Like many other Chinese emerging companies, DeepSeek has been in an established market with different business approaches.
DeepSeek's latest models of artificial intelligence are considered as strong as American rivals, but much more efficient. The success suggests that Silicon Valley's AI lead has shrunk. Deepseek's breakthrough questions about Washington's efforts to limit the advanced chips required for AI, questioning the possibility that those controls may become long -term.
Deepseek has released the first chatbot this month, without relying on the profit of AI products for consumers. This allows anyone to generate text and photos with simple commands. Instead, the company used the money that highlighters from stock trading were used for an ambitious research in bankroll. This approach is different from rivals in the United States, all of which are all consumer technology companies.
With this unconventional approach, DeepSeek has been able to avoid strict regulations that the Chinese government has used to use AI. The focus was on research and sales to companies using the model, and this month, the initial work did not cause the same government's restrictions, until the release of chatbots, not consumer applications.
Deepseek is operated by Liang Wenfeng, a thin engineer with thin and glasses learned at Zue University in eastern Hangzhou. He repeatedly stated in some interviews given to Chinese media that Chinese companies had to do research before profits to catch up with Chinese innovation. Deepseek and High-Flyer did not respond to the comment request.
A Chinese technology company says, “Innovation lacks capital, but lack of confidence and knowledge about how to organize high -density talent to achieve effective innovation,” he said. I mentioned in a widely distributed interview with 36kr.
According to interviews and public accounts, those who work with Lian explain him as a competent manager with a technical background.
“He is definitely intp,” said Zihan Wang, a computer engineer who worked on the previous DeepSeek model, said that the internal characteristic type of the Myers-Briggs test, a popular personality test among young people in China. I mention it. “Intp is a really good researcher and is willing to explore,” said Wan. “He is not one of the people who wants to control everything.”
Lian said he was not bothered by the details of the project timeline, and sometimes asked the researchers as a whole to stimulate their thoughts. However, in most cases, Lian seemed to be driven to move on technology and did not focus on profits.
Unlike many Chinese companies, who tend to focus on programmer employment, Liang has a reputation for hiring non -computing people. Poits and Human Science, a poet at the top university in China and the DeepSeek staff, train models and write the classic Chinese poems and ACE questions taken from the difficult university entrance exams in this country.
“Most of the teams have graduated from the top universities in China,” said Yineng Zhang, a lead software engineer in San Francisco's base ten, working for SGLANG. “They are very smart and very young.”
For many years, high -tech companies in China have pioneered artificial intelligence applications used in computer visions such as face recognition. However, the release of Openai's Chatgpt urged the calculation. When a Chinese company did not release the same thing immediately, many people concluded that American companies have advanced AI and leads.
In China, we have decided to prove that computer scientists can compete. In 2023, many companies in China released their unique large -scale language models, a technology that supports chatbots like ChatGpt.
However, to create advanced models, you need to use a large number of chips that cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
High flyers were also spending. By 2021, it was only a handful of Chinese companies that could stock up over 10,000 advanced NVIDIA A100 chips.
But DeepSeek's research gave an amazing advantage. Last year, he dramatically reduced prices charged by developers who use models to build applications, promoting price wars with greater rivals.
Wang, an engineer who used to work for DeepSeek, said that there was little discussion of the commercial applications they were building. Instead, he said that the company focused on creating AI systems that can be used by a variety of people for many purposes.
“During my stay, I didn't talk much about how to make money,” said Wang. “They focused on creating a wonderful foundation model.”
The most important part of Deepseek is that it has published the work of developers. This kind of information sharing called open source is the basis for the development of computer software, the Internet, and artificial intelligence.
In the United States, AI researchers and entrepreneurs have long been the advances in Deepseek's technology. Last year, the company turned his head when he released a system designed to generate its own computer program.
New issues for the company may be a new and prominent issue. Last week, the same day, R1, R1 behind the new chatbot, Liang appeared at the round table conference with the Chinese Prime Minister, Li Qiang.
The sudden popularity of DeepSeek is a synchrotry tank raised by the Federal Government that it pierces the center of efforts to promote the innovation of the Chinese Communist Party, which can be found to be difficult to manage. Jimmy Goodrich, a senior advisor to Rand Corporation technical analysis. “It's a big trouble for Deepseek. They are convinced that they have not planned the government for five years.
“When both the party and the world are watching, can they maintain this mixed OTIC carefree vision?”
Zixu Wang Contributed to research from Hong Kong.
