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This shows that the race for AI is far from being over,
European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier told reporters on Tuesday in Brussels High-quality efficient AI models are no longer the exclusive domain of tech giants with huge hardware resources,
said Lucie Aimée Kaffee, EU policy lead and applied researcher at Hugging Face, an open-source AI development platform If you’re working on certain sensitive applications, you should beware [of] Chinese labs bearing gifts,
It’s quite something that you store keystroke patterns, on Chinese servers,
said Dutch liberal member of the European Parliament Bart Groothuis It also influences the way we are searching, the way we are thinking, how information is being provided,
There’s substantial evidence that what DeepSeek did here is they distilled the knowledge out of OpenAI’s models,
It is true that DeepSeek has shown new ways for AI models to be efficient, and I think our AI companies are going to learn and adopt those efficiency techniques as well,
We know PRC based companies—and others—are constantly trying to distill the models of leading US AI companies,
an OpenAI spokesperson said I think the Chinese companies are catching up very fast,
I think that our AI companies got a little distracted,
We just can’t afford to get distracted by things that don’t matter,
There are still great advantages to having a lot of chips,
The current sell-off provides a timely nudge for investors to check in on their overall exposure to the US stock market, and in particular to the technology sector
Laith Khalaf, head of investment analysis at investment platform AJ Bell, says Markets have begun to cast doubt on the assumed dominance of US tech firms in the AI space and the lofty valuations they have commanded.
As Jason Hollands, a director of investing platform Bestinvest, puts it This concentration means that any significant downturn in the tech sector can have an outsized impact on the broader market
As Damien Fahy, founder of personal finance website Money To The Masses, explains In our American Fund, we have been trimming our holding in Nvidia throughout 2024 and recycling this capital in other stocks further up the AI value chain,
says James Budden, head of global marketing at Baillie Gifford It is a bit like if you’re building a house and you think you’ll need 1,000 bricks but now you find you actually only need 100
David Coombs, head of multi-asset investment at Rathbones Asset Management, says This is a wakeup call to the American AI industry,
[A ... A] lot of these open-source apps, open-source models, you can actually sort of use them directly on other platforms. Perplexity is a major U.S. AI company, and they're currently using a version of DeepSeek that you can use that doesn't have the data privacy or security threats,
More and more people will use it, and that will open the door to more and more personal data just being given away to the [Chinese Communist Party] and being sent basically to mainland China to be able to inform them of their activities,
