{"id":74615,"date":"2025-01-27T11:29:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=e8f5e659e6d94837a75d595db7c8cdb9"},"modified":"2025-01-27T11:29:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:29:53","slug":"deepseek-panic-triggers-tech-stock-sell-off-as-chinese-ai-tops-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=74615","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek panic triggers tech stock sell-off as Chinese AI tops App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/01\/deepseek-spooks-american-tech-industry-as-it-tops-the-apple-app-store\/\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Hopefully this will begin gently deflating the bubble.\nWe have piles of evidence that the current techniques are more expensive than can be justified (a situation which is favorable to incumbents with large infrastructure investments, hardware vendors, and no one else), and a nice gentle letdown would have fewer disruptive second-order effects than the full on pop the valleybro hustlers probably deserve.<\/div><p>On Monday morning, Nvidia stock <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/01\/27\/nvidia-falls-10percent-in-premarket-trading-as-chinas-deepseek-triggers-global-tech-sell-off.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dove 11 percent<\/a> amid worries over the rise of Chinese AI company <a href=\"https:\/\/chat.deepseek.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DeepSeek<\/a>, whose R1 reasoning model <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/01\/china-is-catching-up-with-americas-best-reasoning-ai-models\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stunned industry observers<\/a> last week by challenging American AI supremacy with a low-cost, freely available AI model, and whose AI assistant app <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/chinese-ai-startup-deepseek-overtakes-chatgpt-apple-app-store-2025-01-27\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jumped to the top<\/a> of the iPhone App Store's \"Free Apps\" category over the weekend, overtaking ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<h2>What&rsquo;s the big deal about DeepSeek?<\/h2>\n<p>The drama started around January 20 when Chinese AI startup DeepSeek <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/01\/china-is-catching-up-with-americas-best-reasoning-ai-models\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced R1<\/a>, a new simulated reasoning (SR) model that it claimed could match OpenAI's o1 in reasoning benchmarks. Like o1, R1 is trained to work through a simulated chain of thought process before providing an answer, which can potentially improve the accuracy or usefulness of the AI models' outputs for some types of questions posed by the user.<\/p>\n<p>That first part wasn't too surprising since other AI companies <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2024\/12\/not-to-be-outdone-by-openai-google-releases-its-own-reasoning-ai-model\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">like Google<\/a> are hot on the heels of OpenAI with their own simulated reasoning models. In addition, OpenAI itself has <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2024\/12\/openai-announces-o3-and-o3-mini-its-next-simulated-reasoning-models\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced an upcoming SR model<\/a> (dubbed \"o3\") that can surpass o1 in performance.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/01\/deepseek-spooks-american-tech-industry-as-it-tops-the-apple-app-store\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/01\/deepseek-spooks-american-tech-industry-as-it-tops-the-apple-app-store\/#comments\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday morning, Nvidia stock dove 11 percent amid worries over the rise of Chinese&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=74615\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}