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The AI sector is still feeling the heat with bears circling, ready to pounce on any signs of weakness,
said Stephen Innes at SPI Asset Management With our policy stance significantly less restrictive than it had been, and the economy remaining strong, we do not need to be in a hurry to adjust our policy stance."
After the announcement, boss Jerome Powell said DeepSeek's cost efficiency is praiseworthy, but the privacy implications of its data collection would raise significant concerns,
said Saeed Rehman, senior lecturer in cybersecurity and networking at Flinders University It is interesting that this breakthrough was achieved not by government-backed research institutes and large [state-owned enterprises], but by a hedge fund with no government subsidies,
noted Zhiwei Zhang, president and chief economist at Pinpoint Asset Management This situation may evoke similar concerns to those raised for TikTok, where data privacy and security have been hotly debated,
Large foundational models require continued innovation, tech giants' capabilities have their limits,
DeepSeek was an initiation that open (source) AI can play a role in the overall GenAI space,
IBM Chief Financial Officer James Kavanaugh told Reuters in an interview To be completely fair, this happens in every scenario. Competition is a real thing, and when it's extractable information, you're going to extract it and try to get a win,
It's impossible to stop model distillation when you have open-source models like Mistral and Llama. They are available to everybody. They can also find OpenAI's model somewhere through customers,
said Umesh Padval, managing director at Thomvest Ventures That's not sufficient, because people can find ways to get around it,
I do not believe that DeepSeek was done all above board. That's nonsense,
As the leading builder of AI, we engage in countermeasures to protect our IP, including a careful process for which frontier capabilities to include in released models,
the company said in a statement America holds the lead in the AI race -- but our advantage may not last,
it warned, calling for government help in AI chip production, streamlining regulations and beefing up cybersecurity against national adversaries It's a huge geopolitical competition, and China's running at it super hard,
warned Facebook titan Mark Zuckerberg on the Joe Rogan podcast If America falls behind China on AI, we will fall behind everywhere: economically, militarily, scientifically, educationally, everywhere,
the US Senate's top Democrat Chuck Schumer said Tuesday Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms ... almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B,
Alibaba's cloud unit wrote in a statement, according to Reuters The unusual timing of the Qwen 2.5-Max's release, on the first day of the Lunar New Year when most Chinese people are off work and with their families, points to the pressure Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's meteoric rise in the past three weeks has placed on not just overseas rivals, but also its domestic competition."
Until now, AI has been defined more by largesse than finesse,
We know [China]-based companies – and others – are constantly trying to distill the models of leading US AI companies,
the OpenAI spokesperson said Should the DeepSeek AI funding model prove sustainable, the AI tokens or projects that will stand the test of time will align with these models to bring users a cheap, functional AI solution,
