Many questions are still swirling about the consequences of Deepseek, the Chinese start-up, whose AI instruments were controlled by yesterday’s stock market. Is it really as good as the FRONTIER models with a closed source created by OpenI and Google? Did Deepseek really use fewer chips? Is it from the work of American players? And if it is as good as some suggested how its rise will climb software, hardware and energy sectors? In our report below we discuss what we know – and we still don’t know -.
In addition, DealBook’s Lauren Hirsch has a hill for the ongoing political evolution Mark Zuckerberg.
Hit $ 600 billion
Futures shares are looking for Blood Bath after Monday’s markets, because investors are deteriorating what the Chinese start-up Deep-up actually means for artificial intelligence.
The resulting consensus is that Deepseek-kirty seems to have built a trustworthy opponent for the best-financed American technical giants with a fraction of their resources-the race of the superiority of AI. Apple and Meta could eventually be better placed than they originally thought, while NVIDIA may not be in a catastrophic position.
AI Laggards may not be as far as believed. Just look at who was in the so -called spectacular seven group of technical giants on Monday. What does it give?
The emergence of cheaper, readily available AI models may mean spending tens of billions of dollars on the development of such tools May be a bad strategy. Apple was criticized for not going everything to plug its wealth in the development of its own AI and the meta was questioned about how its models did not become as popular as Open and Google.
Satya Nadella from Microsoft He suggested on Monday that Deepseek meant that the cost of using AI was declining, allowing its widespread use. For Apple and Meta that will eventually be Users It’s a good thing about this technology.
The future of Nvidia is more cloud. Company Lost nearly $ 600 billion On Monday in market value, because investors considered whether the Deepseek model showed that companies do not necessarily need extremely expensive cache tokens to train AI programs.
Chatbots and other such programs still require a lot of workmanship, which is good news for NVIDIA. However, the ability of the company to drive very high prices for its chips is no longer given.
What about Openi? The company for Chatgpt has increased astronomical amounts from investors who bet to continue its market leadership.
Sam AltmanIts CEO, he was generous in the evaluation of Deepseek and called his R1 offering “an impressive model, especially around what they can provide a price.” This means that he added that OpenIi would “apparently add much better models” and that it would still be important to have more computing power – such as what it is to provide its Stargate initiative – still important.
But Josh Kushner The Thrive Capital, which last year led the round of raising Open Openi in the amount of $ 6.6 billion, had more pointed on social media:
Technologists “for America” openly support the Chinese model that has been trained from the leadership of US border models, with chips that are likely to violate export controls, and – according to their own conditions of service – take us customer data back to China
Here’s what’s going on
Trump’s administration is pushing the plan of universal tariffs. Scott Bessnt who was Confirmed Monday as Minister of Financepromotes the imposing fees starting at 2.5 percent and increases them over time and gives countries the time to negotiate, Message Financial Times. However, President Trump said he would like to see a “much larger” over-board tariffs and suggested that cars from Canada and Mexico achieve their goal list. The tariffs strongly weighed the markets; The dollar increased in the news.
Whole Foods staff in Philadelphia vote on the department. A shop where they would work would be a grocery store Trade unionAnd the organizers hope to inspire similar steps in other places of food chains owned by Amazon. For years, Amazon has been fighting with the effort of work organization on his warehouses and among his drivers. Whole Foods has five days to question the result.
Trump says Microsoft has entered Fray to buy a tiktok. Asked if the Windows manufacturer was involved in interviews to take control of the Video River from the Chinese parent, the President said: “I would say yes. Great interest in tiktok. “Trump openly said he was hoping for a Tiktok offer, but Microsoft – who tried and failed to conclude an agreement in 2020 – refused to comment on his notes.
Deepseek, explained
Deepseek sent an impact through Silicon Valley, Wall Street and the White House. President Trump – who a week ago identified a separate alliance between OpenAi, SoftBank and Oracle to bankroll for $ 100 billion Stargate Artificial Intelligence Initiative – called Chinese Chatbot Manufacturer “awakening“For Big Tech.
But is it really? The Times’s Cade Metz which answered a few urgent questions About Deepseek, he explained that he was dealing with why the stunning rise-up was a big problem.
How do Deepseek accumulate against Open and Google? It is as effective in answering questions, solving logical problems or writing code as anything on the market. More impressive, released the advanced model of “thinking” called Deepseek-R1, which represents another phase of AI development.
Even the latest model of Openai, Openai O3, was not released to the public.
Does this mean that China is now in front of the United States in the race to dominate AI? Not yet. The world has not yet seen the open O3 model and its performance on standard benchmark tests is more impressive than anything else on the market.
Why is Open-source a big problem? Deepseek shares its basic computer code with other businesses and researchers, allowing others to build and distribute their own products. It is a way to test stress and improve code, which is partly the reason why Deepseek and others in China were able to build competing AI systems so quickly and cheap. When the meta shared the AI system freely in 2023, some considered it dangerous because bad actors could use it. Deepseek helped show that this system can create a winner.
Yann Lecun, the main scientist AI meta, said the stock market slipped They will not understand the investment case concerning this technology, especially for top chips. What do they mean? Chips are needed in two phases: AI training (or building) and when running AI run it is when you and I really use the service – as it is called “inference”.
Yann says that a lot of chips are still needed to operate AI products.
Some think Deepseek uses more NVIDIA chips than he claimed, and that the costs are much higher. Can we believe what he said? Deepseek described in detail how to use a small number of chips more effectively. Anyone else can duplicate what he did. Deepseek can have access to multiple NVIDIA chips, and it has certainly been up to about $ 6 million, which has been stated that it is necessary to train their new systems. But its increase in efficacy is real.
The latest moment of Power Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg’s ambitions as Washington Power players led him to the previously unnounced corner of the capital planer scene: a business round table.
The General Director of Meta quietly joined the organization in September after approaching it about the month earlier, Andy Stone, Meta spokesman, confirmed that DealBook’s Lauren Hirsch.
It was a remarkable step for Zuckerberg, who had avoided Washington for years and once avoided the device.
Recently he has accepted the return of President Trump to the office. He began to talk about the questions that the conservatives of the dear. Billionaire also criticized what he considered to be a transfer to police speech and moan podcaster Joe Rogan That “a lot of corporate world is quite culturally neutered.”
Zuckerberg became more visible in Washington under Trump – landed first -class session For inauguration and He took part in Bash Peter Thiel in the district. About two weeks before Trump was sworn to the office, Zuckerberg announced that the technical giant would stop working with third -party facts, which has appeared to satisfy Trump and the conservatives who have accused the company of censorship. “Now I have a much greater command of what I think there should be politics,” said META CEO to Rogan, “and this will continue.”
A commercial round table was a symbol of fine capitalism against which Zuckerberg railing. In 2019, the group, then led by Jamie Dimon JPMorgan Chase, released declaration To argue that companies should go beyond the development of shareholders’ interests and invest in employees, protect the environment and negotiate fairly and ethically with suppliers.
But such goals have fallen out of kindness before Trump was re -elected. Corporate America has definitely focused on the lower limit. Walmart’s Doug McMillon, who was chairman of a round table of shopping table after Dimon, averted the company’s efforts to diversity, justice and integration in November In the middle of a wider political and cultural resistance. At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland – where the initiatives of diversity were once celebrated – discussions on many social issues were almost missing.
“Diversity in general is good for business,” Chuck Robbins, current chairman of the round table ,, said to Andrew in Davos. “But I think the pendulum has turned.”
Gates vs. Musk on populism
Between Bill Gates and Elon Musk, little love was lost.
Opelled technician titans have clashed over the years Vaccines on Covid-19, Artificial intelligence and Twitter (now x) as disinformation. (Revelation that Gates shortened Tesla Really got under Musk’s skin.)
Gates fired a new round. IN Interview with The Times of LondonMicrosoft co -founder accused Muska of using his platform for money and social media to “destabilize political situations in countries”. Musk was increasingly inserted into European policy, trolling elected leaders and receiving deeply controversial persons and hard -by -real political parties in Britain and Germany.
Alice Thomson of Times of London writes:
Especially the risk of suppressing democratically chosen leaders and his discovery of tough law. “You want to promote the right -wing wing, but say that Nigel Farage is not right enough … I think it’s crazy.”
“If someone is supermart and he is, they should think how they can help,” Gates added. “But this is populist mixing.”
The co -founder of Microsoft added that he believes that democracy must be on the guard:
“Other countries should accept guarantees to make sure that the superrich foreigners are disrupting their choice. It is hard to understand why someone who has a car show in China and Germany, whose rocket activity is very dependent on the voltage of sovereign nations and which is busy reduced by 2 trillion trillion USD in US government expenditure and the operation of five companies is the obsessed story of Care in the UK I’m glad, huh? ”
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