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How China’s ‘AI heroes’ overcame US curbs to stun Silicon Valley

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Wang fan and Joao da Silva

BBC News

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When Chatgpt stormed the world of artificial intelligence (AI), this was followed by an inevitable question: Did this cause a problem in China, the largest technical competitor in America?

Two years later, a new model of artificial intelligence from China turned this question: Can the United States stop Chinese innovation?

For a while, Beijing seemed to falter with his answer to Chatgpt, which is not available in China.

Using users mocked Erney, Shatipot by the Bidu search engine giant. Then came versions by Tencent and Bytedance technology companies, which were rejected as Chatgpt – but not good.

Washington was confident that she was at the forefront and wanted to keep it in this way. So, the Biden administration has increased restrictions prohibiting the export of advanced chips and technology to China.

For this reason, the launch of the Deepseek Valley of Silicon and the world. The company says its strong model is much cheaper than the billions that American companies have spent on artificial intelligence.

How did an unknown company – which is being on the Chinese social media as the “AI Hero”?

Challenge

When the United States prevented leading chips in the world like NVIDIA from selling advanced technology to China, it was definitely a blow.

These chips are necessary to build strong AI models that can perform a set of human tasks, from responding to basic inquiries to solving complex mathematics problems.

The founder of Depsic Liang Winfing described the ban on the chip as the “main challenge” in interviews with the local media.

A long time before the ban, Deepseek acquired a “large stock” of NVIDIA A100 chips – estimates from 10,000 to 50,000 – according to MIT technology review.

Artificial intelligence models in the West use an estimated 16,000 specialized chips. But Dibsic says it trained the artificial intelligence model using 2000 such, and thousands of low -class chips – which makes its product cheaper.

Some, including the American billionaire Elon Musk, questioned this claim, on the pretext that the company cannot detect the number of advanced chips that you really used given the restrictions.

But experts say that Washington’s ban brought challenges and opportunities to make the Chinese artificial intelligence.

Marina Zhang, a co -professor at the University of Sydney, says she forced Chinese companies like Dibsic to innovate.

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Dibsic Liang Winfong (PBUH) founder at a modern government meeting

“While these restrictions constitute challenges, they also motivated creativity and flexibility, as they are compatible with the broader political goals in China of achieving technological independence.”

Invested in the world’s second largest economy in large technology – from batteries that operate electric cars and solar panels, to artificial intelligence.

The transformation of China into superior technology has always been the ambition of President Xi Jinping, so Washington’s restrictions were also a challenge that made it clear.

The issuance of the new Depsik model on January 20, when Donald Trump was oath as an American president, was deliberate, according to Gregory C Allen, an expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

“The timing and the way in which its messenger is – this is exactly what the Chinese government wants to think – that export controls do not work and that America is not the global leader in artificial intelligence,” says Allen, director of strategy and politics. At the joint artificial intelligence center of the US Department of Defense.

In recent years, the Chinese government has sponsored the talent of artificial intelligence, provides scholarships, research grants, and encouraging partnerships between universities and industry.

The National Laboratory of Engineering for Deep Learning and other state -backed initiatives helped train thousands of artificial intelligence specialists, according to Mrs. Chang.

China had many bright engineers for recruitment.

Talent

Take Take Deepseek, for example – Chinese media says it includes less than 140 people, most of them are proudly announced by the Internet as a “local talent” from Chinese elite universities.

Ms. Zhang says that Western observers missed the emergence of “a new generation of entrepreneurs who give priority to constituent research and long -term technological progress on quick profits.”

The best universities in China are creating a rapidly “Amnesty International’s growing talents”, as even managers are often less than 35 years old.

“After I grew up during the rapid technological rise in China, it is depth with a self -reliance engine in innovation.”

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Hangzhou, where Deepseek is also home to other technology giants like alibaba

The founder of Dibsic Liang Winfing is an example-the 40-year-old studied artificial intelligence at the prestigious Zhejiang University. In an article on The Tech Outlet 36kr, people who are familiar with it says “resemble a obsessed instead of his boss.”

The Chinese media describes it as “ideal technical” – insists on preserving Deepseek as an open source platform. In fact, experts also believe that a prosperous open -source culture has allowed young startups to collect resources and advance faster.

Unlike the major Chinese technology companies, Deepseek gave the priority to the research, which allowed more experiments, according to experts and people who worked in the company.

“It may not be the 50 best talents in this field in China, but we can build people like this here,” Mr. Liang said in an interview with 36 Claz.

But experts are wondering how deep is. “The new American restrictions may limit access to American user data, which may affect how Chinese models such as Deepseek become global,” says Ms. Zhang.

Others say that the United States still has a great advantage, such as Mr. Allen’s words, “its huge amount of computing resources” – and it is also not clear how Deepseek will continue to use advanced chips to maintain the improvement of the model.

But at the present time, Deepseek has its moment in the sun, since most people in China have never heard of it until the end of this week.

New artificial intelligence heroes

His sudden fame has seen that Mr. Liang would become a sensation on social media in China, where he is caught as one of the “Three Amnesty International Champions” from the southern province of Guangdong, which challenges Hong Kong.

The other two are Zhilin Yang, the leading expert at Tsinghua University, and Kaiming He, who is studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.

The Chinese Dibsic was happier before the lunar new year, the country’s largest vacation. It is good news for a besieged economy and a technical industry that is preparing for more customs tariffs and its potential sale of American Tiktok.

“Deepseek shows us that only if you have the real deal, you will separate the time test,” says the beloved Weibo comment.

“This is the best gift for the new year. I hope our motherland is prosperous and strong.”

“A mixture of trauma and excitement, especially within the open source community,” is how Wei Sun, the main artificial intelligence analyst in corresponding research, the reaction in China.

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Deepseek’s success in China was spent on its largest vacation

Fiona Zhu, a technical worker in the southern city of Chentyn, says her social media “was suddenly dumping with relevant Demp and Dibsik yesterday.”

People call it “glory of manufacture”, and they say it was shocked by the silicon valley, so I downloaded it to find out its quality.

I asked this about “four columns from [her] Fate “, or Ba -Zi – like your own sign is based on the date and time of birth.

But for her disappointment, Dibsic was wrong. While a comprehensive interpretation of the “thinking process” was presented, the “four columns” of the real Ba Zi were not.

She says she will still give her another opportunity to work, as she is likely to be more useful for such tasks.

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2025-01-28 12:37:00

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