{"id":29409,"date":"2025-02-21T21:35:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T13:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=29409"},"modified":"2025-02-21T21:35:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T13:35:59","slug":"%e8%8b%b1%e4%bc%9f%e8%be%be-ceo-%e9%bb%84%e4%bb%81%e5%8b%8b%e9%a6%96%e6%ac%a1%e5%85%ac%e5%bc%80%e5%9b%9e%e5%ba%94-deepseek%ef%bc%9a%e6%8a%95%e8%b5%84%e8%80%85%e8%af%af%e8%a7%a3%ef%bc%8cai-%e5%8f%91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/29409.html","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang's first public response to DeepSeek: investors misunderstand, AI development still needs strong computing power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 21 - At an online event on Thurs.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%8b%b1%e4%bc%9f%e8%be%be\" title=\"Look at the article with the label\" target=\"_blank\" >Nvidia<\/a>Chief Executive Officer of the Company<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e9%bb%84%e4%bb%81%e5%8b%8b\" title=\"Look at the article with the label\" target=\"_blank\" >Jen-Hsun Huang<\/a>(Jensen Huang) said that investors are interested in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/deepseek\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [DeepSeek]]\" target=\"_blank\" >DeepSeek<\/a> Misconceptions about the progress made in the field of artificial intelligence have contributed to the market's misguided reaction to NVIDIA stock.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29410\" title=\"4cfc6cc2j00ss1cf3000xd000ll00g7p\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4cfc6cc2j00ss1cf3000xd000ll00g7p.jpg\" alt=\"4cfc6cc2j00ss1cf3000xd000ll00g7p\" width=\"777\" height=\"583\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In January, DeepSeek released an open-source inference model called R1. DeepSeek claimed that the big language model behind R1 was developed based on a weaker chip and far less capital investment than mainstream AI models in the West. The news triggered a sell-off of Nvidia shares, causing Nvidia's market capitalization to evaporate by $600 billion (note: currently around RMB 4.35 trillion) and Jen-Hsun Huang's personal fortune to shrink by nearly 20%. However, Nvidia's shares have since recovered most of the lost ground.<\/p>\n<p>After the launch of DeepSeek-R1, investors began to question the need for big tech companies to spend trillions of dollars on AI infrastructure, arguing that the computing power needed to train models could be far less than expected.<\/p>\n<p>In a pre-recorded interview on Thursday, Jen-Hsun Huang pointed out that the market's sharp reaction stems from investors' misinterpretation. Jen-Hsun Huang emphasized that<strong>Although the development of R1 seems to have reduced the reliance on computing power, the AI industry still needs strong computing power to support model training post-processing methods<\/strong>, these methods enable AI models to reason or predict after training.<\/p>\n<p>As inference methods continue to evolve and diversify, the demand for the powerful arithmetic provided by NVIDIA's chips will grow as well. Jen-Hsun Huang said at the event, \"From an investor's perspective, they believe that the world is divided into two phases: pre-training and inference, and that inference is about asking the AI questions and getting immediate answers. I don't know who is responsible for this misunderstanding, but clearly this notion is wrong.\" He further noted that pre-training is still important, but post-processing is \"the most important part of intelligence\" and \"a key part of learning to solve problems.\"<\/p>\n<p>Jen-Hsun Huang also mentioned that DeepSeek's innovations have energized the field of artificial intelligence. He said, \"The incredible enthusiasm that has been shown globally since R1 was made open source is an extremely exciting thing to see.\"<\/p>\n<p>Previously, a spokesman for NVIDIA had responded to the market's reaction with a written statement, but this is the first time Jen-Hsun Huang himself has publicly commented on the issue.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) -- At an online event Thursday, NVIDIA Corp. chief executive Jensen Huang said investors have misunderstood the progress DeepSeek has made in artificial intelligence, which has led to the market's misreaction to NVIDIA stock. In January, DeepSeek released an open-source inference model called R1. DeepSeek claimed that the big language model behind R1 was developed based on weaker performing chips and far less capital investment than mainstream Western AI models. The news triggered a sell-off of NVIDIA stock by investors, causing NVIDIA's market capitalization to evaporate by $600 billion (note: currently around RMB 4.35 trillion), and Jen-Hsun Huang's personal fortune to<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[3606,239,1342],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-29409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-deepseek","tag-239","tag-1342"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29409"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=29409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}