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Experts Share: What Impact Does DeepSeek Have On The AI Startup Scene?

DeepSeek underlines China’s commitment to AI development and the quality of the country’s resident AI talent.

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Experts Share: What Impact Does DeepSeek Have On The AI Startup Scene?
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  • DeepSeek underlines China’s commitment to AI development and the quality of the country’s resident AI talent.

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Western restrictions are more likely to slow or temporarily impede China’s AI innovation, rather than to halt them.

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Use of open source AI runs the risk of absent or insufficient maintenance support, contractual safeguards or safety guardrails.

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Dr Megha Kumar is a reputed domain expert on geopolitics, AI and digital regulation.

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DeepSeek was developed as open source out of compulsion due to the tightening of US restrictions on the export of advanced semiconductors to China. So reportedly the model uses fewer Nvidia chips and less computational power than models of equivalent power such as OpenAI GPT series.

It does underline China’s commitment to AI development and the quality of the country’s resident AI talent. The announcement of DeepSeek was probably deliberately timed to coincide with Trump’s inauguration and the announcement of the US Stargate AI plan.

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