China’s DeepSeek has transformed the global market of artificial intelligence (AI) and has put the leadership of the US in this sphere at jeopardy, the Foreign Affairs magazine said.
According to its estimates, DeepSeek is paving the way for China to dominate in the global AI market. The technology of artificial intelligence may create an edge in the military sector, which further emphasizes the importance of achievements in this area, the magazine noted.
DeepSeek is comparable to the ChatGPT and Claude models by US-based OpenAI and Anthropic in terms of performance, while being much cheaper.
The article noted that if the United States and its allies do not accelerate the development of their own open-source large language models, China will take the lead in the AI sector, and the West will lose the technological advantage forever.
On January 20, China-based DeepSeek released a new version of the R1 chatbot, which allegedly surpasses OpenAI’s flagship ChatGPT. Meanwhile, the developers of the Chinese chatbot say that they spent only $5.6 million and used outdated microchips to create their product.
The chatbot has rapidly become popular among users across the globe and has led to fluctuations in stock markets due to investors’ fears that Western AI-leading companies might be overvalued.