Its arrival on the global market and digital stores is scaring US and other tech giants , thanks to «the use of advanced learning techniques that allow the model to “reason” autonomously» and less powerful chips. Its name is DeepSeek , the «promising Chinese startup founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng and supported by the Hangzhou hedge fund High-Flyer», which in just a few days has become a prominent name in the world of artificial intelligence.
As Filippo Diodovich, Senior Market Strategist at IG Italia , explains, the chat bot's "flagship" is "the DeepSeek-R1 model, launched at the beginning of 2025, which has already made people talk about it thanks to its ability to solve complex problems, such as mathematical reasoning and code generation". Its arrival on the global technological scene seems revolutionary because, "despite a very limited budget and resources compared to its Western rivals, DeepSeek-R1 has managed to surpass some of the most famous American models, such as OpenAI-01, in important performance tests". This achievement has unleashed a wave of enthusiasm, but also a bit of apprehension, especially among US and European technology companies, underlines the Senior Market Strategist at IG Italia.
The pulse of the situation is given by the download numbers on the stores , which show how the popularity of DeepSeek has exploded, conquering global users and becoming the most downloaded free app on the App Store in China and the United States, even surpassing ChatGPT. However, there may be challenges that hinder its development, such as China's censorship laws, which limit AI models from dealing with sensitive political topics.
(Unioneonline/vf)
