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The writer is a founding partner of VC in Hong Kong in. capital
Deepseek changed the path of global competition forever. In China, Founder of Liang Winfing He became a local hero. For a country still is seen on external grades-especially those in the United States-as it is more famous than its local equivalent, students and parents were amazed to discover that its research team in artificial intelligence has received a local education.
Beijing is more confident than ever in its pursuit of technology. Deepseek's success undermines the barriers created in the American -Chinese technical war.
The decision of the company residing in Hangzhou to issue a low -cost Amnesty International model, in addition to the detailed disclosure of training methods, means that everyone, researchers in Sao Paulo, to startups in Stockholm and doctors in Nairobi, can reach the country -from the origin of AI in Little cost.
Inside the Chinese starting sector, a chain is reaction. New AI applications are created. Competition will become more fierce. Risk appetite increases from investment in the early stage. Deepseek decision to follow up on an open source AI model is inspiring and pressure on others to do the same. The first to interact was the QWEN team in Alibaba, which released QWEN2.5 as an open source last month on the eve of the new Chinese year.
This is a noticeable change. After Openai Chatgpt has released an artificial intelligence model in late 2022, the global digital economy was heading towards control by a handful of technology giants. These players are chasing the scope on efficiency-building time models that require amazing account, energy and capital while protecting their training methods as commercial secrets.
Central and closed models create a dangerous reaction ring. The more data they collected, the more powerful it becomes, the greater the marginalization of anyone outside their gates. For consumers, this means large drawings, delivery of data and watching the future of artificial intelligence without meaning.
The Deepseek's Replearing R1 promise is located to adapt. Be open to its source can be designed for local needs. It avoids excess accounts using something called sporadic nerve network training, which means that its efficiency reduces the needs of the account and energy according to the size of the size.
This means that advanced artificial intelligence can benefit the masses, not just the few. It proves that technology is a commodity. Billions of dollars are required to compete between technology giants with closed models. The value of artificial intelligence should not lie in ownership models, but in what we all can do.
As an investor, I am concerned that Dibsic's emergence may lead the United States to choose strict sanctions. In China, the export restrictions of graphics processing units (GPU) such as the powerful H100s in NVIDIA have hindered the startup growth. Foreign investors are limited due to compliance risk fears. But the real danger lies in reducing access to global education and research cooperation, which suffocates the flow of global knowledge, which is crucial in maintaining progress. Talent can defraud the shortage of the chip, but setting up barriers in front of long -term risk learning.
However, even the additional restrictions of the United States, conspiracy theories and stinging campaigns targeting Deepseek cannot change the fact that Chinese youth put Amnesty International in the hands of humanity.
Against all noise, let us consider this a moment in history. In 1440, Johannes Gothenburg brought Europe the printing press, which is the invention of the breaking monopoly of knowledge that the elite had previously kept. Deepseek's completion joins this tradition of making information easier. The low -cost thinking model proves that artificial intelligence can belong to everyone, not only those who fail to symbols, chips and capital.
