"DeepSeek could be a game changer", China's big models "stir up" Silicon Valley

In just one month, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1, two big models with low cost and price, and performance comparable to OpenAI, which shocked Silicon Valley, and even triggered a panic within Meta, as engineers began to try to replicate DeepSeek's results overnight.On January 24, a post posted on the anonymous platform teamblind went viral. A Meta employee said that Meta has now entered panic mode because of DeepSeek's model. Mark Anderson, founder of the prestigious investment firm A16z, posted on January 24 that Deepseek-R1 was one of the most amazing and impressive breakthroughs he had ever seen, and that it was still open source, and that it was a gift to the world.On January 24, Anjney Midha, a partner at A16z and a member of the board of directors of Mistral AI, said: "From Stanford to MIT, DeepSeek-R1 has become the model of choice for researchers at top U.S. universities almost overnight." Holger Zschaepitz, a prominent financial journalist, said on Jan. 25 that DeepSeek built a breakthrough AI model at a fraction of the price and without the use of a cutting-edge chip, raising questions about the utility of the industry's hundreds of billions of dollars in capital spending. (Persia)