Nvidia calls DeepSeek an 'excellent AI advancement' and praises the Chinese
AI app's ingenuity

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Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:26:22 +0000

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Nvidia issues statement after record share price crash.

FULL STORY ======================================================================After DeepSeeks surge in popularity, Nvidia is commenting on the AI newcomer Nvidia calls DeepSeek an excellent AI advancement Nvidia hints that its GPUs are still critically important

If you hadnt heard the fuss about DeepSeek over the weekend, there is a good chance you'll at least have heard the term by now. It rose to fame because it provided a genuine competitor to ChatGPT at a fraction of the price, and it has caused turmoil in the stock market, seeing tech share prices plummet. Nvidia in particular suffered a record-breaking $600 billion share price drop , the largest share price drop in history.

Released by a Chinese startup of the same name, DeepSeek is a free AI chatbot with ambitions to take on the likes of OpenAIs ChatGPT. There are also new models with some multimodal capabilities, mainly in image creation and analysis. It has taken the AI world by storm and is still the number one app in Apples App Store in the United States and the United Kingdom.

The app and website proved popular, with DeepSeek experiencing an outage and
a reported malicious attack the same day it rose to fame.

While Sam Altman, OpenAIs chief executive, responded , we also heard from Nvidia, arguably the global leader in AI chips, which has risen in prominence as the AI wave has continued to grow.

In an emailed statement to TechRadar, Nvidia wrote, DeepSeek is an excellent AI advancement and a perfect example of Test Time Scaling. DeepSeeks work illustrates how new models can be created using that technique, leveraging widely-available models and compute that is fully export control compliant. Inference requires significant numbers of NVIDIA GPUs and high-performance networking. We now have three scaling laws: pre-training and post-training, which continue, and new test-time scaling. (Image credit: Adobe Stock)

It's certainly strong, calling DeepSeek an excellent AI advancement, which speaks to the performance of DeepSeeks R1 model. It also confirms what we knew: new models can be established using existing models and chips rather than creating entirely new ones.

Nvidia clearly wants to remain a key part, noting that this type of rollout requires a lot of Nvidia GPUs and plays off the fact that DeepSeek used China-specific Nvidia GPUS. Reading between the lines, it also hints that DeepSeek will need more of its chips at some point.

DeepSeek claims it used an innovative new training process to develop its
LLMs using trial and error to self-improve. You could say it trained its LLMs in the same way that humans learn, by receiving feedback based on their actions. It also utilized an MoE (Mixture-of-Experts) architecture, meaning
it activate only a small fraction of its parameters at any given time, significantly reducing the computational cost, making it more efficient.

Sam Altman also praised DeepSeeks R1 model, particularly around what they're able to deliver for the price. He reiterated that OpenAI will obviously deliver much better models, but he welcomed the competition. Nvidia seems to be keeping its future cards closer to its chest.

Its still a waiting game of sorts to see when DeepSeek AI will turn back on new sign-ups and get back to full performance, but if youre curious about its staying power, read my colleague Lance Ulanoffs TechRadars Editor-at-Large thoughts on its chances of sticking around in the United States . As well as our hands-on of DeepSeek AI versus ChatGPT from John-Anthony Disotto, one of TechRadars AI experts. You might also like DeepSeek is the new AI chatbot
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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-calls-deeps eek-an-excellent-ai-advancement-and-praises-the-chinese-ai-apps-ingenuity


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