Chinese start-ups such as DeepSeek are challenging global AI giants

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Their models are cheaper thanks to US export restrictions that have inadvertently spurred innovation

Last month, a Chinese start-up called DeepSeek astonished the international tech community with its latest open-source artificial intelligence model. DeepSeek-V3 delivers a performance comparable to that of better-funded US rivals such as OpenAI. This week it impressed once again with R1, its foray into AI reasoning.

https://archive.ph/51WIt#selection-2415.0-2419.1

 

I see lots of comments about how China just produces cheap copycat goods. Clearly this is an outdated view. Japanese manufacturing was regarded in the same way for about 25 years after WW2.

[John Drake]

And just in time, Musk has made Grok subscription only again. Was free last night but only gives a subscription prompt now. ChatGPT was already limited in the number of images it would generate for free and Gemini won't generate images of people unless you pay. They are driving people to DeepSeek, although no image function on DS yet.