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takes them to earth

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The great novelty of ‘Alien: Earth’, the Alien series that FX (and therefore, almost safely, here Disney+) will premiere in summer, is that as it is not cut to announce from the first second and the initial teasers, It will pass on the planet Earth. Fans of the long -distance franchise know that it is not a new idea, but the really difficult question to answer is … Is it a good idea? How on earth? The only information about how one or more xenomorphs get to Earth is that of the official synopsis, which takes place two years before what we saw in the foundational ‘Alien: the eighth passenger’: “When a mysterious spacecraft crashes into The land, a young woman and a diverse group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face to face with the greatest threat of the planet “ They are among us. The creator of the series, Noah Hawley (also creator of ‘Fargo’ or ‘Legion’, that is, unbeatable credentials), has begun to drop clues On what awaits us, that to start it can be in the origin of the Xenomorph: “The funniest thing for me was to commit to the creature, contribute my own ideas to the design without touching the silhouette, which is sacrosananta. But some of the elements , as we know, depending on the host, they report what the final creature is. What kind of creature can the host be to be so scary? A wild animal? Or something beyond what we know? Your first time on Earth? The novelty about the xenomorph on Earth is only relative, because it already flirted or investigated in the idea on previous occasions. With a view to a fifth installment that was never filmed, in ‘Alien: Resurrection’ ended up landing in a devastated, almost deserted land. In comicsminiseries such as ‘Aliens: War against Earth’, ‘Aliens: Genocide’ or ‘Aliens: No Exit’ pass during xenomorphic invasions on Earth, although they do not strictly belong to the classic canon. Finally, the two great ‘Alien vs. Predator ‘pass on Earth, but ‘Prometheus’ and’ Covenant‘They were taken from the canon, so officially belong to a temporary line other than the main series. And is it a good idea? It is a relevant question, although complicated to answer because we still do not know when the xenomorphs will land on Earth. Will it be a post-nuclear and desolate planet, as expected ‘resurrection’ and whose fateful destination other films of the saga refer? Maybe there are mutants and monsters in that moor, of which the monster is used? Are we going to see this summer a ‘rulout’ with xenomorphs? The previous one. ‘Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem ‘came out of his crazy (and very brave) idea of ​​taking the xenomorphs no less than the earth in the present thanks to his absolute shamelessness: it seemed an Italian film of the eighties, more than an official sequel, it is To say, it was more ‘pollution: Alien invades the earth’ than ‘aliens’. (It’s praise). Is it a good idea, in any case? On paper, no: if we lose the claustrophobic atmosphere, retrofuturism and accounts back because the ship is going to explode, perhaps too many defining elements of the franchise are falling. When we have more details about Hawley’s plans, it will be time to comment with property, but for the moment, the beards nerve. Header | Disney In Xataka | The protagonist girl of ‘Aliens’ hates her most iconic phrase: he pursues her from the premiere of the James Cameron classic

Nvidia has lost 400,000 million in market value. The lace has been given by China Depseek

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It is the news of the day. And, perhaps, of the week. The model of artificial intelligence (AI) Open Source Deepseek R1 is causing an earthquake in American technology. And is doing it Due to its open nature. However, your business model is not the only thing that It represents a threat For AI and US semiconductor companies. The most surprising thing is that the infrastructure that Deepseek is relatively modest. To understand with some precision what we are talking about we are interested H100 of Nvidia. The company led by Jensen Huang He is already delivering The first units of his successor, the platform B200as expected, on paper is even more powerful. However, sanctions approved by the US government prevent Nvidia from selling to Your Chinese clients are GPU. Here largely resides the Deepseek rupturist capacity Deepseek’s efficiency and his open nature are convulsing Silicon Valley Chinese companies that are dedicated to developing and training AI models have not been another option to exacerbate ingenuity. We know that many of them continue to buy the most advanced GPUs in NVIDIA through intermediaries and in parallel markets, but possibly they are not doing so in the amounts they need. If we stick to Deepseek according to Financial Times The infrastructure used to train this agglutin model 2,048 chips H800 of Nvidia. And training with 671,000 million parameters has cost 5.6 million dollars. These figures are very restrained. In fact, if they really are reliable, and they seem to be, they would put an unappealable fact on the table: Depseek engineers would have managed to point An extremely competitive AI model with very lower costs than those needed by Openai and Google to develop a model of comparable AI. The H800 GPU is largely responsible for this circumstance. And it is because it was Nvidia’s response to the prohibitions of the administration led by Joe Biden. Nvidia engineers chose to cut the benefits of the H100 GPU with the purpose that the Commerce Department would allow them to sell it in China When the US government prohibited Jensen Huang’s company from giving its Chinese clients its most powerful GPU at that time, the H100 chip, Nvidia engineers chose to cut their benefits with the purpose that the Department of Commerce allowed them to sell it In China. The result was precisely the H800 GPU, which is nothing other than a simplified review, and, therefore, less powerful of the H100 chip. Everything was complicated again on November 16, 2023. And that day the US government approved New sanctions to China that, among other prohibitions, they prevented Nvidia The H800 GPU. Presumably at that time Depseek engineers already had in their hands the H800 chips they needed, although Some analysts defend that, in reality, its infrastructure brings together 50,000 GPU H100 bought through intermediaries. If so, it is evident that the tension held by the US and China would prevent Depseek from recognizing that thousands of illegal chips have in its possession. Whatever the truth is that NVIDIA QuotationMicrosoft, ASML and other large technology companies are falling in a very pronounced way. In fact, the company led by Jensen Huang has lost 400,000 million in market value Given the possibility that Deepseek demonstrates that to put a vanguard IA model, it is not necessary to resort to the most powerful GPUs of NVIDIA or other companies. If this has really been trained only with 2,048 chips H800 OpenAi, Google and other companies will crack. And this industry will give optimization and efficiency the importance they have. We will see what happens finally. Image | Nvidia More information | Financial Times In Xataka | China is closely monitoring the United States movement with Stargate. And your answer has already prepared

NASA is about to launch two rockets toward the auroras. The objective: understand their hypnotic movements

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The auroras have fascinated those who have observed them for millennia, but they continue to hold all kinds of mysteries. despite current sensors. In order to better understand your blinks and pulses, NASA will fly directly to them from the region of the United States where they appear most frequently. Meanwhile, in Alaska. Although almost all of America’s space activity occurs in warm Florida, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has everything ready to launch a sounding rocket from Alaska. Delayed on numerous occasions due to bad weather (today they expect snowfall and tomorrow, minimum temperatures of -28 ºC), the launch is scheduled for this week from Poker Flat Research Camp from Fairbanks. A flight to the auroras. The mission is called Ground Imaging to Rocket investigation of Auroral Fast Features (whose acronym is “GIRAFF”but I don’t know who they’re trying to fool, we all know they put the acronym first). The objective is to fly, with separate sounding rockets, to two subtypes of northern lights: Fast-pulsing aurorae, which flicker in a rhythmic pattern of pulsations every second, are related to a type of electromagnetic waves in the magnetosphere called Alfvén waves. Flickering auroras, whose variability is slower and more irregular, and are characterized by flickers in the sky that appear to move or shift according to the flow of charged particles in the magnetosphere Aboard a modified missile. For this mission, NASA will use Black Brant XI sounding rocketswhose first stage is derived from the US Talos naval missile. With three stages of solid fuel, the small rocket is capable of launching a payload of up to 600 kg to a height of 250 kilometers. The GIRAFF mission rockets are equipped with instruments to measure the processes responsible for creating the optical variations in auroras, hypnotic movements observable from Earth that occur at relatively high frequencies of up to 15 Hz or more. The GIRAFF mission. NASA researchers want to understand why some auroras flicker, others pulse, and others appear to have holes. This research focuses on two specific energy coupling mechanisms with such saccharine names as low-altitude electromagnetic ion cyclotron wave-particle interactions and chorus wave modulation in the equatorial magnetosphere. To better understand the mechanisms of these interactions, what better than to fly directly into a flickering aurora and a fast pulsating aurora with two identical rockets? A second mission will launch two more rockets into the dark spots or “holes” of the auroras to better study this other phenomenon. Images | NASA/Lee Wingfield/Sebastian Saarloos In Xataka | This is what the Northern Lights look like from space

European telecos are discouraged before global competition

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The Departure by José María Álvarez-Pallete de Telefónica It marks the end of an era that symbolizes the decline of the sector in Europe. Its mandate ends with a 57% drop in the stock market value of the company since 2016, when it agreed to the position. Of course the problem goes far beyond Telefónica. Why is it important. The European Telecommunications sector has lost 41% of its stock market capitalization between 2015 and 2023, falling to 270,000 million euros. In contrast, American telecos are worth more than 650,000 million. The root of the problem. Europe has 34 mobile network operators and 351 virtual operators for 450 million inhabitants. The United States, with 335 million inhabitants, only has three main and 70 virtual operators. China, for 1.4 billion inhabitants, has four operators and 16 virtual. Proportionally to its populations … Europe has eight times more main operators than the US and 27 times more than China. In virtual operators the difference is even greater: almost four times more than the US and 78 times more than China. Between the lines. European regulation has prioritized low prices and high competition, creating a fragmented and unable sector to compete globally. Meanwhile, the US and China have opted for giants with financial muscle. This dynamic has had consequences: it is expected that the sector only grows 1.7% in 2025. In Spain, 71,000 jobs have been destroyed since 1998, according to appointment Five days. And while the 5G coverage in Europe is 81%, in the US and in China it exceeds 95%, according to The independent. Turning point. He Draghi report Ask to facilitate mergers and end market fragmentation. The new European Competition Commissioner, Teresa Ribera, He said that the rules “will evolve” to allow larger scale. It is a burning nail to which you have to grab. Without a regulatory change that allows consolidation (and perhaps requires greater contribution to large technological ones whose business goes through the use of these networks, A historical demand Of the great telecos), the European Telecos sector will continue to lag in the global race. In Xataka | The discreet engineer: why the great shareholders see in Murtra the manager who needs telephone for his next decade Outstanding image | Telefónica

detect a plane at 5,000 meters high

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China has been around for a while developing all types of sensors and radars whose characteristics suggest a future very different from the current one. Without going too far, last September They tested a device called LARIDa super radar that was able to detect a gigantic bubble of invisible plasma in the Pyramid of Giza. The latter is something very different, and can change the battlefield. Unprecedented underwater radar. In a secret location 1,000 meters deep, Chinese scientists have developed and tested what points to an unprecedented underwater sensor capable of detecting aircraft at high altitude from the depths of the ocean, representing an unparalleled strategic advance for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) submarine fleet. To give us an idea, technology managed to identify a fixed-wing aircraft at 5,000 meters above sea levela milestone that no other nation has achieved to date. Such technology, which until now was considered impractical due to the complex acoustic properties of water, could dramatically improve the survivability of submarines against warplanes. antisubmarineequipped with advanced sensors to locate and destroy them. Implications and capabilities. Underwater radar represents a significant strategic advantage for the nation. The reason? Turn the current combat around, allowing your submarines to go from targets to hunters in anti-submarine warfare. Currently, aircraft equipped with advanced sensors can detect and attack submarines without being spotted, but with this new technology Chinese submarines could, a priori, receive early warnings of hostile aircraft and launch missiles from underwater with precision. And there is more, of course. The main technological challenge lies in the fact that most of the sound waves generated by aircraft are reflected from the sea surface, making their detection difficult. However, researchers at the Institute of Acoustics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, led by Zhang Bo and Peng Zhaohuiemphasize that they have achieved an innovative solution by taking advantage of the multiple reflection of sound waves between the seabed and the water surface, allowing Extend detection range and improve radar sensitivity. System testing and limitations. Apparently, In 2022, China carried out secret tests of underwater radarmanaging to detect a plane 17 kilometers away and, attention, with a margin of error of less than one kilometer. Still, limitations were identified, such as a blind spot when aircraft fly directly over the sensors, as well as a detection range that still needs to be expanded for effective military applications. In this regard, Zhang and Peng continue working on system optimizationalthough they have not revealed recent data. Complement to the military intelligence network. China’s military strategy is based on a multi-layered approach that integrates various detection technologies. Currently, the People’s Liberation Army has a satellite network capable of tracking high-performance aircraft like the F-22 stealth fightersin addition to radar systems on ships and land stations. The new underwater radar would act as a complement, providing redundancy and improving detection capability in hostile environments. Future perspectives. Although the details of this development were kept secret for years due to its military sensitivity, the research team has recently published an article in the journal Acta Acusticaa job where information about the functionality of the system is provided. That said, and as is often the case with innovations of this type, everything indicates that there remains a long road of testing and improvements in operational scope to guarantee its effective integration in real combat scenarios. What does seem abundantly clear is that the innovative underwater detection system marks a paradigm shift in naval warfare, one where, in the absence of verifying it on the ground, It would give China a huge tactical advantagehighlighting its leadership in the development of cutting-edge underwater surveillance technologies. Image | Marinha In Xataka | China has tested its new super radar. They have detected a gigantic bubble of invisible plasma in the Pyramid of Giza In Xataka | China gains muscle in aerial technology: it already has new radars against drones, missiles and stealth aircraft

It is becoming increasingly clear that there is no “normal” body temperature.

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If you ask us what the “normal” temperature of our body is, the instinctive answer will be 37º Celsius. When the thermometer exceeds that mark, we usually talk about fevermild or high depending on how far we move away from the figure. However, over time health experts have realized that the reality is a little more complex. The body temperature issue It is not a mere curiosity. Fever is an important response of our body to many diseases or disorders, generally to infections. The fever It is a double-edged sword: our body raises its temperature to try to kill viruses and bacteria that may be damaging it, while activating our body’s immune response; However, in the process, fever can also put the proper functioning of our organs at risk and cause other problems such as dehydration. Since fever is a common response to various illnesses, it can also cause us serve as a diagnostic toolto narrow the circle on the possible conditions that affect us. Answering the question of what is the “normal” temperature of our body is difficult. And the reasons behind this are several. Firstly, because, over the last century and a half, the estimated average temperature of the human body has been reducing. The notion that our body temperature It is at 37º and dates back to the mid-19th century. In 1868, the German doctor Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich conducted a study using 25,000 patients and more than a million temperature measurements. From these data, he calculated that the average temperature was 37ºbut also observed certain deviations. However, more recent studies have observed lower average temperatures. A recent example of this we found it in a studio Made in the United States and published in 2020 in the magazine eLife. The analysis indicated that Americans’ body temperatures had been dropping at a rate of about 0.03º Celsius every decade. A previous study conducted in the United Kingdom and published in 2017 in the magazine B.M.J.estimated an average temperature of 36.6º in its sample of more than 35,000 participants and 250,000 measurements. We don’t really know why body temperature has been reducing over time. A possible explanation It lies in the improvements in hygiene and immunity, which would imply a lower incidence of infections in the population and therefore lower average temperatures. But this is just one of the various hypotheses that seek to explain the phenomenon. Wunderlich himself observed in his study that men and older people tended to have lower body temperatures, while women and younger people had higher temperatures on average. Which brings us to the second reason why establishing a “normal” reading is especially difficult. And it depends. Sex and age are two of the factors that can make what is “normal” for one person not “normal” for another. But other factors can also alter this figure. a study published in 2023 in the magazine JAMA Internal Medicine measured the degree to which these factors affected body temperature, but also added new variables such as height, body mass, and the time of day at which the measurement was taken. Among the sample of 618,306 observations, the average temperature was at 36.64º Celsius. Among the participants, the average readings for each individual ranged between 36.24º and 36.89º. It is also worth remembering that there are different ways to measure body temperature (tympanic, oral, axillary…) and that each one It presents some slight associated deviations. So at what temperature fever comes? As is evident after what we have read, the answer is that it depends on each person and situation, although fortunately, with the variations being less than one degree, the interpretation of the results of a thermometer may not be as different from the conventional one as to affect decisions such as whether or not to stay home during a cold. However, for health experts, having better knowledge about these variables can be of great help. That is why new studies have also investigated this question. One published in November of last year in the magazine Scientific Reports by South Korean researchers, analyzed the body temperature of 9,195 hospital patients through tympanic temperature measurements (the tympanic temperature It is usually half a degree above the oral measurement and about one degree above the axillary measurement). The team estimated an average temperature of 36.91º Celsius, and a limit of 37.81º for fever. In Xataka | What to do when we have the flu: what measures to take and in which case we should ask for help Image | Polina Tankilevitch

We believed that the price of coffee could not rise much more. The diplomatic “war” between Colombia and the US thinks otherwise

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Of the tens of thousands of words that make up the English lexicon, Donald Trump has one that he especially likes and for which he has declared his love in some or other interview: tariff (tariff). This weekend he reminded the Colombian president of this in a quite practical way, threatening to impose 25% rates (or even 50%) if he did not give in to the aggressive immigration policy which is promoted from the White House. Everything indicates that it will remain that way, a threat, but it serves to warm up a market that has been facing strong shocks for months. turbulence: the one with coffee. Yes 2025 It looked complicated For lovers of morning espressos, your outlook has just become more complicated. What has happened? That Trump has shown that, indeed, he feels a special weakness for the word “tariff.” Over the last few weeks it has announced more or less clearly that it will apply taxes on imports of China, Mexico, Canada, Europe, Denmark and even Spainalthough it is still not entirely clear whether the latter was said deliberately or as a result of a geographical ‘slip’. Curiously, it has been another country that has been on the verge of suffering tariff fury from the republican: Colombia. Screenshot of Trump’s announcement on Truth Social. Why’s that? For something that actually has little to do with the international market, trade balances and tax policy. The trigger has been migration. And a political fight between Washington and Bogotá. Basically, yesterday the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, refused to allow two planes from the US loaded with deported Colombians to land in his country. What’s more, he threatened not to welcome them until Trump adopts protocols that guarantee treatment. “with dignity and respect” for immigrants. The response of the Republican, who has managed to return to the White House after an electoral campaign that largely pivoted on a hardening of immigration policy, it did not take long to wait: through its platform Truth Social advertisement a 25% rate for the import of Colombian merchandise that would rise to 50% in a matter of days. Petro responded after a few hours with the same currencyordering a sudden increase (25%) in the tariffs that Bogotá applies to US goods. How did the crash end? In dispatches and without reaching customs. At least for now. Despite its initial reaction, the Petro Executive ended up giving in to Washington’s demands and agreed to receive the planes with deportees. Enough so that Trump has not yet signed the economic sanctions, which have already been drafted and will be activated if his southern neighbor “does not comply” with the agreement. “The Government of Colombia has accepted all of President Trump’s terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returning from the US,” they boast from the White House, which reminds that Bogotá will also receive them “without limitations or delay.” Click on the image to go to the tweet. What does it have to do with coffee? Simple. The announcement of Trump’s tariffs and the fight between the White House and the Nariño Palace did more than shake up American diplomacy. He also put on guard various sectors Colombians who have important interests in the United States, such as oil, floriculture (which is preparing for the millionaire campaign Valentine’s Day) and coffee. Of all of them, the one more expectation generatesdue to the state of its market and price driftis the latter. At the end of the day, Colombia is not just any country on the international coffee map. And the United States is not just another market for Colombian producers either. This double condition means that everything that affects the relationship between the two, including of course the threats of 25% tariffs or even 50%, interest (and quite a bit) to the market. But… What does the data say? To begin with, Colombia is one of the main coffee powers on the planet. The own tables The US Department of Agriculture places it as the third largest producer, only behind Brazil and Vietnam. Other observatories leave the same drawing, like Statista. A 2024 reportThe USDA office, linked to the US Government, estimated that during the 2024/2025 campaign, Colombian coffee exports would total around 12 million GBE bags. Colombia matters on the global coffee map. And its relationship with the United States is also important, something that is better understood with the help of a couple of figures. According to the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC), in 2022 Colombia exported 15.6 billion dollars to the US, of which almost 1.8 billion corresponded to coffee. This data makes it the second largest exported commodity in terms of value, only behind crude oil. The footprint of Colombia in the flow of coffee that reaches the US is also considerable. Click on the image to go to the tweet. But the rate would affect the US, right? The US tariff policy is that, the US tariff policy, and as warned The New York Times Yesterday, basically imposing 25% taxes on Colombian goods would mean that Americans would have to dig deeper into their pockets to buy flowers and coffee. However, if we talk about grain, what happens on the other side of the Atlantic interests us. And the reason is very simple: shocks like the one on Sunday put even more tension on a market that is already go through turbulence. “If the US imposes a 25% tariff on all Colombian exports, the already red-hot coffee market will heat up even more. Colombia is the third largest coffee producer in the world (and a key source of rabi beans). premium)”, I was reflecting yesterday in X Javier Blas, Bloomberg columnist. In the same tweet he included a column written by himself a few days ago in which he warned of the complex panorama facing the coffee market. And what situation is that? In Xataka we have talked already several times her. And it is summed up … Read more

In the middle of a huge “train of storms”, AEMET has just pronounced the most anticipated word of winter: snow

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The rain no respite and he’s not going to give it. Neither the rain, nor the winds, nor the snow. While the storm Herminia full of red notices the entire northwest part of the peninsula, the forecasts have us all looking at an Atlantic full of surprises. Among them, snow. What Herminia is doing. In recent days, the entire country has been revolving around Herminia. In some regions (such as Galicia) the intensity of the winds forced to divert flights and cancel trains. The worst, however, had not yet passed: this Monday will be the strongest day of the storm. 16 autonomous communities They have notices from the AEMET. Until Tuesday, Herminia will unfold a temporary more than considerable with wind, waves, rain and snow. But, as we said, Herminia is nothing more than the appetizer. According to predictive models, two new storms are going to cross the peninsula. The first will make its debut on the same Wednesday. In fact, on Tuesday a very cold air mass of polar origin will begin to enter the country. We talk about “temperatures at about 5500 meters altitude (500 hPa)”, explained Sergio Escama in Meteored. But the interesting thing is that we will notice it down here. What will we notice? The winter. Winter in its meteorologically pure state. From Wednesday the general drop in temperatures will be evident and snow will affect to the Cantabrian Mountains, the Pyrenees, the Central System, the Iberian System and other inland areas. The snow level is not clear yet, but is expected to be low. And that will be only the first of the post-Herminia storms. Because, according to AEMET modelsafter a very entertaining Wednesday-Thursday with the snow (and its problems); A busy weekend will follow. That is, the “storm train” extends as far as we can reliably see. This precision is important because, although right now there is a possibility that this second storm will be more intense than the previous ones, the time frame prevents us from being able to estimate its virulence accurately. What can we do? Luckily, The recommendations for now are the same: avoid unnecessary trips; prepare for the cold, wind and snow; and pay attention to weather and civil protection updates. We already know that this is one of the great paradoxes of snow: it is something as wonderful and fascinating as it is full of problems. Image | AEMET In Xataka | The best tips for a snow or hail storm

The price of energy that its chips factory is using in Ireland

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The tuning of an advanced semiconductor factory equipped with machines with avant -garde lithography It costs up to 30,000 million euros. This is precisely what will cost the plant that Intel will build in Magdeburg (Germany) If the project finally goes ahead. And, as we tell you at the beginning of last November, this company has decided delay the start of construction of this factory until 2029 or 2030. Initially the works were going to start during the first half of 2023, but The negotiation of subsidies forced to delay this date until the summer of 2024. However, Finally Intel and the German government agreed as a construction start date May 2025. Anyway, the four or five years of lag planned by this company are a consequence of the delicate situation in The one that is intel. The cost of energy is crucial to preserve the competitiveness of a factory The center of the conversation on this occasion is not occupied by the Magdeburg plant, although we stay in Europe; It is monitored by the factory that Intel has in Leixlip (Ireland). These facilities began producing integrated avant -garde circuits In the Intel 4 node In September 2023, and they are also manufacturing semiconductors in the Intel 3 node. This plant is equipped with equipment of extreme ultraviolet lithography (UVE) produced by the Dutch company ASML, and has a fundamental role in Intel infrastructure to serve its European clients. Intel is paying for electricity in Ireland that in the US or Israel As we have seen in the first lines of this article, the cost derived from the tuning of a last niche plant is very high, but, in addition, Intel has just stumbled with a problem in his Leixlip factory: The price of electricity in Ireland. According to this US company, this cost amounts to 15 cents per kilovatio houra figure that is approximately double high as in the US or Israel, which are the venues of some of its most advanced semiconductor production plants. As we can intuit, the price of electricity paid a chip factory has a direct impact on the final cost of the integrated circuits it produces. And, therefore, also in its competitiveness. Intel has rushed to ensure that the future of the Leixlip plant is assured due to the very important role he plays in his infrastructure, but in Rte They argue that he is negotiating with the Irish government to find a way to reduce the cost of electricity that he is currently paying. Presumably it is likely that the State finally assume a part of the cost of energy. Image | Intel More information | Rte In Xataka | The US does not press only Nvidia and Asml against China. Prepare more restrictions for TSMC, Intel and Samsung

We knew that US Big Tech had a problem with the costs of their AI. DeepSeek has just shown to what extent

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DeepSeek is the new darling of AI. This family of models, developed by a Chinese R&D laboratory of the same name, has achieved what seemed impossible: compete with the OpenAI or Meta models and do so, according to them, at a much lower cost. Is that true? A development 18 times cheaper than GPT-4. The Chinese startup released DeepSeek V3 671B at the end of December 2024. Its gigantic model was trained in just two months with a budget of 5.58 million dollars according to SCMP and analysts cited in Financial Times. Its performance is comparable to OpenAI’s GPT-4, but the latter cost about $100 million to develop according to Sam Altman. That’s almost 18 times more if we take into account both the data revealed by SCMP and Altman’s estimates. Comparative cost of the main chat and reasoning models today. DeepSeek’s price is incredibly lower than its competitors. Data: DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta. Amazingly cheap. The cost of DeepSeek’s API is incredibly low when compared to its competitors. If we take the data from DeepSeek, Goal, OpenAI, Google and Anthropic It seems to be clear that the cost of using DeepSeek through its API is much lower than that proposed by its rivals. We have included the cost of GPT-4o mini which seems to be the only one comparable, but its performance is much lower than DeepSeek V3. DeepSeek V3 is superior to most of its competitors, although it is true that Meta has released for example Llama 3.3 in recent days and that comparison varies frequently. And it is (theoretically) superior to all. As they point out on RedditDeepSeek V3 prices are promotional: starting February 8 they will be $0.27 per million input tokens (almost double) and $1.10 per million output tokens (almost four times more) . This makes the comparison somewhat better for the competitors, especially for Llama, the only one that can compete in cost although the Chinese model is superior to that of Meta (and almost also to the rest in many metrics) according to the benchmarks carried out in DeepSeek. DeepSeek also “thinks” cheaper. The cost comparison is not only in favor of DeepSeek in the area of ​​traditional chatbots, but also in the area of ​​reasoning models. According to its internal benchmarks, the spectacular DeepSeek R1 It is significantly superior to OpenAI’s o1, but using the o1 API costs 27 times more than that of DeepSeek R1. Hallucinatory. Price drop in sight. As expert Ethan Mollick points out, the market will adjust to these DeepSeek-driven price drops fairly quickly. According to their estimates, the cost of a GPT-4 level AI was reduced 1000 times in 18 months, and a 95% drop in the price of the reasoning models, which right now are clearly higher than the AI models behind ChatGPT, for example. a chinese tsunami. The launch of the DeepSeek models is a great little revolution for all types of developers of AI-based solutions: they now have access to much cheaper models that are comparatively equal to or superior to those of the competition. This puts their rivals in a lot of trouble, and we will see how they react. Good news for users. The truth is that for us, the users, as well as for the developers, this is great news, especially because these prices make access to these functions incredibly cheaper. The market has been following this trend clearly, but DeepSeek has made the jump in cost reduction suddenly drastic. Image | Xataka with Freepik Pikasso In Xataka | OpenAI prepares a PhD-level AI. It is so promising that he will first show it to the US Government

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