By Shantini Mogan
31 JANUARY:A Chinese AI firm called DeepSeek has quickly gained notoriety and is now competing with well-known AI chatbots like Google Gemini and ChatGPT.
Compared to its rivals, its main AI model, R1, has demonstrated exceptional performance while consuming a notably smaller amount of processing power.DeepSeek invested about $6 million to develop its AI, which is a small portion of what businesses like Meta have to pay.
Because of its effectiveness, the DeepSeek app has risen to the top of the Apple App Store, where it is still in high demand and occasionally causes service interruptions.Discussions concerning DeepSeek’s possible ramifications and safety concerns for users, national security, and the larger tech sector as a whole have been spurred by the platform’s explosive growth. One worry is that the app might be banned in some places, just like other Chinese-owned apps like TikTok have been under scrutiny.
National security concerns have been raised by lawmakers and experts who are concerned that DeepSeek may put American users at risk and encourage censorship.We will explore these changes and their implications for users and the IT landscape in our live broadcast. We’ll look at the most recent DeepSeek news, evaluate the possibility of possible restrictions, and talk about the wider ramifications of the company’s rise to prominence in the AI space.
