Chinese shock: Disclosure of the revolutionary Chinese model of artificial intelligence Deepseek-R1 caused “cleaning” one trillion dollars from Nasdaq Composite. This is a leading American technology index, which ended Monday with a decrease at the level of OK. 3 percent The NVIDIA technological giant has recorded a decrease in the value of the shares of 17 percentlosing one day $ 600 billion. Japanese companies also record losses. Advantest, a company producing chip testing equipment and a supplier for NVIDIA loses over Tuesday over 11 percentand the Tokyo Electron chip producer loses almost 6 percent
“Moment of Sputnik AI”: Marc Andreessen, a well-known investor from Silicon Valley, assessed on platform X that the appearance of the Chinese Deepseek-R1 model is “the moment of Sputnik AI”. In this way, he referred to the satellite launching by the Soviet Union, which initiated the space race in the late 1950s. In the next post he added that Deepseek-R1 to “One of the most amazing and impressive breakthroughshe has ever seen – and as an open source a great gift for the world. “
Signal for concerns: US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the appearance of the Chinese model Deepseek-R1 should be a strong signal for American technology companies. He emphasized that concerns from the USA they cannot lose this competition and should dominate in the field of artificial intelligence.
The success of the Chinese model AI: Deepseek-R1 turned out to be a very competitive model that defeated the American openai o1 in three out of five AI tests. The Chinese model caught the attention of the entire technological world, although it was to be created for a fraction of costs incurred by American companies. As conveyed, Deepseek-R1 was to be created for the only one $ 5.6 millionand opens Openai for the development of AI $ 5 billion a year. Experts are afraid that China can outdo the US in the AI ​​race, creating more effective solutions at lower costs.
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Sources: The Guardian, Investing.com, Marc Andreessen on X, NBC News