Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has made a significant impact with its AI Assistant app surpassing ChatGPT in popularity on Apple's US App Store. This success challenges US dominance in AI and raises questions about the effectiveness of export controls targeting China's AI development.
Chinese startup DeepSeek has made a significant splash in the artificial intelligence (AI) world, with its AI Assistant app surpassing rival ChatGPT to become the top-rated free application on Apple's App Store in the United States. Powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model, which the company claims is comparable to the most advanced closed-source models globally, the app has rapidly gained popularity among US users since its launch on January 10, according to app data research firm Sensor Tower.
This achievement has sent ripples through Silicon Valley, challenging conventional wisdom about US dominance in AI and the effectiveness of Washington's export controls aimed at limiting China's access to advanced chips and AI capabilities.AI models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek require powerful chips for training. The Biden administration has been implementing export bans since 2021 to restrict the flow of these chips to China, preventing their use in training AI models developed by Chinese firms. However, DeepSeek researchers asserted in a paper last month that the DeepSeek-V3 model was trained using Nvidia's H800 chips, costing less than $6 million. While this specific detail has been contested, the assertion that the training chips were less powerful than the most advanced Nvidia products that Washington seeks to keep out of China's reach, coupled with the relatively low training expenses, has prompted US tech executives to question the efficacy of tech export controls.DeepSeek remains an enigmatic entity. Little is publicly known about the company, a small Hangzhou-based startup founded in 2023, the same year search engine giant Baidu released the first Chinese AI large-language model. Since then, numerous Chinese tech companies, both large and small, have unveiled their own AI models. Yet, DeepSeek stands apart as the first to garner praise from the US tech industry for matching or even exceeding the performance of cutting-edge US models.
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