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There is already a first crack in Chinese technological optimism: DeepSeek

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Chen Deli, senior researcher at DeepSeek, has admitted at a state conference who is “extremely positive about technology, but pessimistic about its impact on society.” It is the first time that a representative of the Chinese company has spoken publicly since February, when its founder met with Xi Jinping after provoking that world earthquake with the launch of R1. And he has done it with that pessimistic outlook. Why is it important. This message comes from a company that the Chinese government has turned into a symbol of technological capacity and resilience in the face of US sanctions. That one of its leaders recognizes great risks for employment is a notable turn in a country where the official discourse is usually triumphalist. The facts. Chen participated in the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen along with the heads of five other companies known in China as “the six little dragons” of AI. His diagnosis has a gloomy tone: in one or two years, AI will be good enough to start replacing human jobs. In a decade or two it could take care of the rest. “Society could face an enormous challenge,” has said. “Tech companies need to take on the role of advocate.” Between the lines. This is not an American CEO peddling apocalypse smoke to inflate his valuation. In China, the State regulates technology with a firm hand. When Sam Altman says that AI will “probably lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime there will be big companies,” it sounds like marketing. When a DeepSeek executive says it at a conference organized by the government, after many months of silence and after its founder met with Xi, it sounds like a party line. The context. DeepSeek exploded in January with DeepSeek-R1a low-cost, open-source language model that was on par with American leaders. Since then, absolute exit. The founder, Liang Wenfeng, has appeared only once in all this time: at a televised symposium with Xi Jinping in February. Neither Liang nor the company has made public comments since then, and they have skipped all major Chinese tech conferences. Yes, but. While sending this message of caution, DeepSeek is in the process of consolidating itself as a cornerstone of the Chinese AI ecosystem. Chip manufacturers such as Cambricon and Huawei have developed hardware compatible with their models. In September, the company launched an “experimental” version of its V3 modelnotable not so much for its efficiency as for creating an alternative to NVIDIA’s CUDA API and its support for Chinese GPUs. In August, the simple announcement of a model optimized for national chips shares of the sector skyrocketed in the local market. And now what. Xi Jinping has proposed a little over a week ago on the APEC forum that there should be a global body that governs AI, making it “a public good for the international community.” Now a DeepSeek representative talks about AI as a potential threat that requires a unified approach from the technology sector. The narrative is shifting from triumphalism to preventive regulation. Featured image | Xataka, DeepSeek In Xataka | We believed that no open model could outperform GPT-5. A Chinese startup proves us wrong

they use Huawei and DeepSeek chips

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China’s race to get become technologically independent from the United States It is reaching the military sector. The military is accelerating the integration of artificial intelligence into its operations and most importantly: they are favoring national technologies. In the software, DeepSeek. In hardware, Huawei chips. what’s happening. the chinese army is using AI to support strategic decision making and target detection. According to an analysis of Reutersseveral studies and patents suggest that they are also applying it in new vehicles such as robot dogs and autonomous drones, all prioritizing the use of national technologies, both in software and hardware. Why is it important. China has already given steps to stop depending on Nvidiathe maker of the most powerful AI chips. This is one more step towards technological independence, but in a critical sector such as the military. The objective is to eliminate foreign influence in its defense infrastructure, just like the United States does. Huawei chips. Speaking to Reuters, the defense policy expert Sunny Cheungassures that since the beginning of this year the Chinese military has increased the number of contractors that exclusively use national hardware. That is to say, AI chips made by Huawei. Although the military still uses Nvidia chips (it is not known if they were imported before or after of the blockade), there is a movement towards the use of own chips. DeepSeek. At the beginning of the year, military experts in China assured that the military was testing DeepSeek integration. In May, researchers from Xi’an University showed a system based on DeepSeek capable of creating and analyzing 10,000 combat scenarios in just 48 seconds. Reuters analyzed several tenders awarded to various companies by the Chinese military and at least a dozen mentioned DeepSeek, while only one referenced Alibaba’s Qwen. It is clear which is the preferred model for the Chinese army. Robot dogs and drones. The documents analyzed by Reuters also suggest that the Chinese military is integrating AI into autonomous vehicles such as robot dogs. It is no secret, in 2024 the army itself published a video promoting robot dogs who moved in packs to eliminate explosives and other threats. The robots in the video were from the Chinese company Unitree, but there are also other national companies dedicated to the manufacturing of these vehicles such as Norinco, which confirmed in a technical report that they use Huawei chips. On the other hand, Deepseek is also being integrated into drones to give them the ability to recognize and follow targets with hardly any human intervention. Image | Wikipedia, Flickr In Xataka | Europe already has the future of war drones within its reach. And it is offered by a country accustomed to them: Israel

Hangzhou is the city of DeepSeek, Alibaba and Unitree without any of the typical Silicon Valley ingredients. His secret is another

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Hangzhou, a city of 12 million inhabitants 180 km south of Shanghai, is home to a striking number of powerful technology companies: Seven reference technologies (the six ‘little dragons’ plus the giant Alibaba) in a city that does not have any of the elements considered essential in Silicon Valley: Abundant venture capital. Leading universities. Links between university and industry. And a robust industrial structure. How could you then Hangzhou emerge well? The facts. Venture capital is plummeting in China. Funds in yuan have fallen from 88.42 billion dollars in 2022 to 5.38 billion in 2024. Funds in dollars, from 17.32 billion to 750 million. Hangzhou has not been a major recipient of investment until last year, when its province –Zheijang– stood out with 41 new corporate venture capital funds. But it was only after Unitree or Game Science had gained national attention. Missing. Hangzhou has only one elite university – Zhejiang – compared to 26 in Beijing, 11 in Jiangsu or 10 in Shanghai. The admission rate at Tsinghua and Beijing Universities for students from the capital (0.85%) is almost ten times that of students from Zhejiang (0.09%). None of the founders of “the six little dragons” or Alibaba created their company directly from university. Liang Wenfeng founded High-Flyer, the hedge fund after DeepSeekeight years after graduating. Jack Ma was rejected for 30 jobs after finishing his studies. Yes, but. The city has innovated by doing away with those ingredients. The explanation offered by Zilan Qian, a researcher at the Oxford China Policy Lab, points out ChinaTalk to “flexible governance”: a model where officials adopt “waiters” and “babysitters” mentality that facilitate rather than control. The context. Hangzhou does not have the political, financial or industrial importance of first-tier cities, which has given it greater local autonomy to shape its technology sector. Zhejiang province was a pioneer since the 1980s in promoting private enterprise during the early phases of Chinese economic reforms. Jack Ma He tried to establish Alibaba’s headquarters in Beijing or Shanghai, but failed due to the cost of rent and bureaucratic barriers. In 2015, Ma explained her decision: “Beijing favors state-owned enterprises, Shanghai favors foreign companies, and Alibaba was nothing in their eyes. If we return to Hangzhou, we become the local only child who receives all the attention and support.” Hangzhou is part of the sometimes called “chinese technology triangle“(sometimes also”golden triangle“) along with Shanghai and Shenzhen. More than a geometric reality, the functional metaphor describes the complementarity of three cities: Shenzhen provides industrial capacity and hardware. Shanghai concentrates finances and internationalization Hangzhou stands out in the internet, AI and an ecosystem favorable to private companies. Each vertex of the triangle has different strengths that, combined, generate an ecosystem where geographical proximity facilitates collaboration and flow of talent between the three poles. Between the lines. The model is described as “market-oriented” but maintains a level of centralized governance. The Hangzhou government sees quality of life as a strategy to attract businesses and talent, but positions itself as an enabler, not a controller. The absence of state-backed research institutes and a strong industrial base contributes to the government’s humble attitude. If Hangzhou were more strategic or more industrial, DeepSeek might not have had the creative space to emerge and provoke the earthquake that caused in January. The narrative of “self-made industry” and “entrepreneurial bureaucracy” admits conflicting readings. What some interpret as facilitation, others read as a euphemism for “dirigiste intervention by the State”, with a very defined plan of action and long-term objectives. “Flexible governance” can be both real local autonomy… and dirigisme disguised as pragmatism. At least it is no longer “a city south of Shanghai” but “Alibaba City” or “DeepSeek City”. In Xataka | China is selling us a future full of humanoid robots. We have (many) doubts Featured image | JinHui CHEN in Unsplash

Deepseek put China on the AI ​​map. The danger is that this revolution stays in a day flower

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Deepseek R1 was eating the world At the beginning of the year. This Chinese model, apparently out of nowhere, caused A true shock In the AI ​​industry, but since then there has been movement. Actually there has been one, but the disturbing thing is precisely what that movement has been. Hi, Deepseek v3.1. The startup advertisement Last week the launch of Deepseek V3.1, a new version that stood out for being an improved hybrid of Deepseek V3 (fast response) and Deepseek R1 (reasoning). There was also good news in terms of their performance: according to the Benchmarks published by those responsible, it was significantly higher than their predecessors. Visible (but non -dramatic) improvements. In the “model card” (model card) that those responsible offers In Hugging FaceDeepseek v3.1 (in reasoning mode) proved to behave slightly better than Deepseek R1-0528, —Your previous version, more powerful-in areas such as programming or in mathematical tests, but some users who have tried it there comment That except in those areas, the model is worse and “it behaves poorly when following instructions or prompts provided by users.” Others confirm it and They assure which is useful for programmers, but not for other areas. It also has limitations on its multimodal support, and focuses on the text instead of providing more options for another type of interaction, for example from voice, image, video or audio messages. A Chinese model for Chinese chips. But even more interesting it was that Deepseek V3.1 has been designed and launched with a clear objective: avoiding the dependence of foreign chips. The FP8 precision used makes this model behave very well In the next -generation Chinese chips. The strategy seems very interesting for the startup, which could thus have a very aligned model with the priorities of the Chinese government. This is: use local models for local chips as much as possible. And R1, what? From there some doubts arise. The first, which affects Deepseek R1, the model with which the startup “broke” the market at the beginning of the year. The company has eliminated all references to this model in the characteristic of “deep thought”, which has generated doubts about the potential appearance of its expected successor, a hypothetical Deepseek R2. Loses users. But while that theoretical model comes – if it does – the company faces a more immediate threat. As they point out In SCMPDeepseek is losing users (or at least relevance) in recent months. In the first quarter of the year its market share within the scope of the IA Open Source models used on the PPIO cloud platform was a spectacular 99%. However, in the second quarter that percentage has dropped to 80%. Fierce competition. That fall relevance has an obvious reason: its local competitors are squeezing. And a lot. Among them is the family of models Qwen from Alibaba, but Also others like Kimi-K2-Instructof the startup Mosohot AI – in which Alibaba has also invested – which is becoming one of the most popular models of recent weeks. Delays and deceleration. Precisely the focus on being able to make the most of future Chinese chips seems to be the reason that this hypothetical Deepseek R2 is being delayed. At least that is the hypothesis that consider In Financial Timeswhere they revealed that the startup has failed when trying to train with Huawei chips. The situation has made them Training with Nvidia chipsand that are using the Huawei Asce for the inference stage, that is, the interaction with the model via web or API by users. But this attitude is “very Chinese”. We may in Western countries we are accustomed to a much more frantic pace and that we expect constant updates and improvements with an eye on the short term. In China, philosophy is usually the opposite, and companies adopt A long -term strategy even if immediate benefits are lost. Maintaining a low profile is also usual among those companies, which try not to make much noise … until they do, as Depseek has already demonstrated. Thus, we will have to remain very attentive to the activity of this startup, because surely he will be working to continue being one of the protagonists of the AI ​​panorama. Image | Tim Reckmann In Xataka | Deepseek has suggested that Nvidia chips no longer needs. We believe to know who is buying them

Deepseek has suggested that Nvidia chips no longer needs. We believe to know who is buying them

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Deepseek shook at the beginning of 2025 the foundations of the industry of the artificial intelligence (AI). This Chinese model developed by the specialized quantitative coverage fund trading High-Flyer algorithmic monopolized all the attention because He gave us free of charge an AI with a quality similar to the comparable solutions of Openai or Google. However, this was not all. And it is that for three weeks the debate about the hardware used by this company to train its model. High-Flyer, who specializes in addressing investment decisions using advanced mathematical models and computational algorithms, says he trained Deepseek R1 using 2,048 chips H800 of Nvidia. Several analysts They soon react ensuring that he had actually used 50,000 GPU H100which are more powerful, bought through intermediaries. The sanctions of the US government prevent Nvidia According to SCMPDeepseek’s next iteration will dispense with the GPUs of this American company. High-Flyer has suggested that everything you need already finds it in China Last week those responsible for the Deepseek development published on the Wechat platform an entry in which they hinted that next generation GPUs for China They will launch soon. This comment has unleashed endless speculation about the name of the Chinese company that is going to make this announcement, but, above all, it has put on the table the possibility that High-Flyer is preparing the following Deepseek iteration using these chips. A priori does not seem at all crazy. According to SCMP The five GPU designers for the Chinese who have the ability to deliver to High-Flyer the hardware they need are Huawei Technologies, Cambricon Technologies, Moore Threads, Hygon Information Technology and Metax Integrated Circi. Any of them could be responsible for the announcement anticipated by Deepseek developers in Wechat, but we We bet on the first three Because, in our opinion, they are Those who are “in a better way”. Cambricon Technologies is one of the companies specialized in the design of GPU for AI with greater growth potential Although it is not as well known as Huawei or Moore Threads, Cambricon Technologies is one of the companies specialized in the design of GPU for AI with greater growth potential. In fact, he has received the approval of the Shanghai bag (China) to raise 560 million dollars. Will allocate them to the design of four chips for training and inference of AI models, and also to the development of an alternative to CUDAfrom Nvidia. On the other hand, Moore Threads He has developed several GPU for AI applications that, on paper, rivaize some of the advanced solutions that have placed in the Nvidia, AMD or Huawei market. MTT S4000 and MTT S3000 cards They are its most interesting proposals right now, although, curiously, in its porpholio the MTT S80 card also appears, a proposal for games and content creation that, according to Moore Threads itself, has a calculation capacity of 14.4 Tflops in single -precision floating coma operations. The other indispensable actor in the Chinese chips industry for IA is Huawei. His most ambitious proposal right now is the chip Ascend 910dwho seeks to overcome the performance of the GPU NVIDIA H100. However, this Chinese company has also recently presented its chip Ascend 920a solution that is clearly destined to occupy in the Chinese market the gaps that the NVIDIA H20 GPU is going to leave. This proposal will enter large -scale production during the second half of 2025 using 6 NM integration technology that have presumably developed elbow with Huawei elbow and SMIC (Semiconductor manufacturing international corp). More information | SCMP In Xataka | Nvidia has to deal with the absolute distrust of several US legislators. His plan in China is in danger In Xataka | The US wants to end the chips for the Chinese that are sold abroad. And China knows how to defend oneself

Deepseek marked a turning point in the AI race. Now another Chinese company wants to imitate its success: Kimi K2 is born

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The Chinese startup Monshot AI has presented Kimi K2, an open -source artificial intelligence model that arrives with outstanding programming capabilities and autonomous tasks that, according to The published benchmarksThey spray competition in several of their models. Its launch occurs at a key moment for the sector, when Chinese companies seek to replicate the disruptive success of Deepseek with potential height models and much cheaper than market alternatives. Kimi does not come from nothing. MoNshot ai was one of the most promising startups in the Chinese ecosystem of AI and that giants like Alibaba have invested greatly. His Kimi chatbot reached third place in monthly active users in August 2024, but fell to the seventh in June After the emergence of Deepseek R1 in January. Now try to recover ground with a strategy that combines open source and aggressive prices, following the formula that catapulted Deepseek. Image: MoNshot AI What Kimi K2 offers. The model has 1 billion total parameters and 32,000 million activated parameters, using The well-known Mixture-Of-Experts architecture to optimize computational costs. It is presented in two versions: a base for researchers and developers, and another optimized for conversation and autonomous tasks. Kimi K2 thus becomes Moonshot AI’s proposal with the ability to act as an intelligent agent to use tools, write code, complete workflows or talk, among other tasks. Kimi K2 explained in numbers. In performance testsKimi K2 has achieved 65.8% precision at Swe-Bench Verified, one of the most demanding benchmarks for software engineering. In LivecodeBench it reached 53.7%, exceeding 46.9% of Deepseek-V3 and 44.7% of GPT-4.1. In mathematics, its 97.4% score in Math-500 exceeds 92.4% of GPT-4.1, suggesting significant advances in mathematical reasoning. The price factor. MoNshot is charging $ 0.15 per million input tokens and $ 2.50 per million tokens out of the developers who use their API. Compared, Claude Opus 4 It charges 100 times more for the entrance (15 dollars) and 30 times more for the output ($ 75), while GPT-4.1 charges 2 dollars per entrance and 8 per exit. In addition, the model is available for free in Web applications and Kimi mobile, without monthly subscriptions that require chatgpt or Claude for their most advanced models. Technical innovation. MoNshot has developed the MuCanclip optimizer, which allows train models of one billion parameters “With zero training instability.” This technology could drastically reduce the training costs of large models, a problem that has limited the development of AI to companies with greater resources. Double channel strategy. The company offers so much Free access to the source code as payment API at a very competitive price. This strategy allows companies to start with the API for immediate implementation and then migrate to self -healing versions either by regulatory cost or compliance. And it is that each developer who downloads Kimi K2 becomes a potential business client. Moment of inflection. Kimi K2 represents a convergence point where open source models and proprietary alternatives shake hands. MoNshot AI intends to turn Kimi into a tool for everything, while offering its open source model and is reserved to charge for the use of its API for all types of implementations. And now what. The launch reaches a critical point in which both Openai, such as Google or Anthropic, must respond to this wave of cheap and high quality language models. The issue is no longer whether open source models can match the owners, but if large technological ones can adapt their business models fast enough to compete in this new scenario. The looks are put in GPT-5 And in the next movements of the industry at a rate, as always, accelerated. Cover image | Xataka with Mockuuuups Studio and Kimi AI In Xataka | Grok 4 destroys the tests and aims to be the most advanced AI model. The problem is that Elon Musk continues to sabotage his answers

After the emergence of Deepseek, the “seven magnificent” of the Tech industry have collapsed in the stock market. All except Apple

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The year began well for Nvidia. On January 29, 2025 its capitalization I reached The 3.49 billion dollars and everything seemed to go on wheels. The Surprise arrival of Deepseek R1 It changed things a lot and joined other factors to cause spectacular collapse. Two months later, this Nvidia market capitalization is 2.77 billion dollars: it is almost 21% less. That effect has been contagious, but one of the greats is falling the storm. Apple. As they point out In five daysthat January 25, 2025 Apple had a capitalization of 3.55 billion dollars, and at this time that value is 3.35 billion, 5.6% fall. Sensitive, of course, but much less than that of its rivals of the group of “The Magnificent Seven”. That they have stayed in … Not so magnificent. Next to the fall of Nvidia are those of Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Tesla – as we say, is saved a little. If we analyze the evolution of market capitalization of the seven the performance of these two last months, the “average” drop is 13.5%. They have lost more than two billion dollars compared to 15.58 billion dollars in late January, a real collapse. It’s not just care. The impact of Deepseek has not been the only factor that has contributed to those falls. They have had a lot to do The recent tariffs That is imposing Trump to imports of all kinds of products – foreign cars They are the last victims-. These taxes and Trump’s protectionist policy are forcing many companies to restructure their strategy, and investors – and consumers – are clear what the impact of all this will be: price increases everywhere. Why does Apple endure? Of the great technology, Apple is the only one that has managed to mitigate the losses relatively. Probably partly because of his “warm” attitude to AI. Your interest in data centers fever It is practically nulland despite the Recent criticism It is clear that it is not “burning money” as other companies in the sector do. The rest of the group has invested true fortunes In this segment, although some They are stopping. Bubble in sight? These days are 25 years of the bubble of the Puntocom, and what is happening with the great technology and the AI ​​segment does fear for an AI bubble. There are certainly similarities between both situations, but also important differences. Apple, especially solid. Cupertino’s company is usually More immune that their rivals to these fluctuations in the world of finance. In the face of complaints about the relative lack of innovation or New disruptionsApple has managed to diversify income – especially with the expansion of its services – and continues to maintain confidence of both investors and users. Image | Zhang Kaiyv In Xataka | Deepseek R1 is not just another AI model: it is the greatest existential threat that Silicon Valley has faced

Huawei has just said goodbye to Android by Deepseek. And this strange folding is the first step

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I had announcing the movement For a few months, and it has finally materialized on a phone. Huawei He just said goodbye to Android in his native countryand he has done it with a curious phone with an never seen aspect relationship. This is the first phone that lands on the market with Harmonyos Nextthe operating system completely developed by Huawei with its own kernel and without a trace of Android. In addition to premiere operating system, it is the first Huawei device to release Harmony Intelligence, its AI in collaboration with Deepseek. Goodbye to Android. The day came. Huawei has presented its first phone without a trace of Android, the Huawei pure x flip. To date, the company’s mobiles were marketed in China with Harmonyos. An operating system that, although the company wanted to completely disconnect from Android, was based on its nucleus. With Harmonyos Next things are different. This is an operating system developed from scratch, does not use Android code, is not compatible with its apps (at least, not if these are not modified) and uses its own core (HMS or Huawei Mobile Services) instead of the Google Application Service. This is the first 100% Harmony mobile. The first step for AI. Harmony Intelligence It is your alternative to Apple Intelligence and Samsung Galaxy AIpromising to go beyond an assistant for AI. This AI has trained both the Pangu model, developed by Huawei, and in Depseek, a model that is permeating quickly in Chinese mobiles. “We have trained our AI assistant for millions of hours with our large -scale language models and we have taken that intelligence to the device for the first time, so that it looks like a human and interact naturally, with conversations with different emotions and detecting the user’s mood.” As Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei promises, the focus is that the person-one interaction is as natural as possible, coming to promise that the assistant will be able to detect user’s emotions (it has not been detailed how). In a more landed plane, it will be able to eliminate photographs objects, generate and modify them, convert voice, and even describe the objects that the telephone camera sees, so that people with accessibility problems can “see” through the mobile. Another especially curious function is to be able to read books without touching the phone: we can pass pages only with our eyes. Huawei wants a 100% own ecosystem. The key here is not that a Huawei mobile releases its AI, is that Huawei is already prepared, in agreement with Deepseekto compete with the greats of the industry. Harmonyos Next is a platform oriented to all types of devices, from home to the connected car, and this first jump presenting Harmony Intelligence is key to the Chinese manufacturer. The company has advanced that its first platform for PC (Harmonyos Next brought to desk) will land in May, and it is expected that throughout the year we will start to see this operating system in virtually all new products that launch the market. The pure huawei. The lucky one who has released Harmonyos Next is the pure x, a folding phone in appearance ratio 16.10 when it is deployed. It is a telephone that, being folded, has a 3.5 -inch screen with 980 x 980 resolution, 2,500 peak shine nits, LTPO technology and appearance ratio 1.1: completely square. Upon opening, a curious 6.3 -inch panel is displayed with resolution 2,120 x 1,320, a completely different format than we are used to. The camera system is triple, with 50 MP for the main camera, 40 MP for ultra wide angle and 8 MP for 3.5X teleobjective. It has a 4.720MAH battery with a fast charging of 60W and will be sold in China at a price that starts from 7,499 yuan (just over $ 1,000) in its 12 + 256 GB version. At the moment, far from Europe. If the question is whether Huawei’s plan to completely end its Android dependence, the answer is no … for now. In Europe, the company is looking for alliances with developers after projects such as Aurora Store to facilitate the installation of Google services in its terminals (something that is easier than ever), and betting on EMUI based on ancient Android versions. The key to Harmonyos Next ends up being global is in the Chinese manufacturer alliance with the rest of the developers and technological. In China, Google apps or giants as a goal (Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook) have hardly any presence, in our territory they are an essential for a good part of the users. Currently, they can be installed in EMUI thanks to the microg Google Services framework. Without it, the matter is complicated. Image | Huawei In Xataka | China has a possibility to unseat Android forever. One called Harmonyos

While OpenAi insists on being the new Google, Deepseek says they have higher goals: AGI

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Sam Altman has been very clear about his way of seeing things in Openai from the beginning. He has always been in a hurry to launch the ED models his company, market them and be looking for investment rounds to be able to sustain that frantic expense rhythm. The funny thing is that one of his greatest rivals, Deepseekyou are looking for a totally opposite strategy. Income grows. As they point out In Financial Timesthe company led by Liang Wenfeng has become one of the favorites of the Chinese technological panorama. Its payment services, consisting of the API for the use of Deepseek V3 and R1, have worked very well and have allowed income to cover operating expenses for the first time last month. But Deepseek doesn’t look for money. However, industry experts point out in FT that Liang has no intention of trying to take advantage of the time to maximize financial income marketing more and more their (efficient) products. No investment. Nor seek investors who support their goalsand in fact there is talk of how difficult it is to talk to the founder of the company. An investor of a multi -million dollar fund in China indicated how “we took advantage of high -level government connections and we only managed to sit with someone from their financial department who told us that they regretted it but did not look for investment rounds.” A for the AGI. Instead the company is focused on developing its current models and also in seeking the development of general artificial intelligence (AGI). It is the same challenge that other rivals pursue, but it is not clear what path each one is following to reach those with superior abilities even to those of human intelligence in all areas. Totally different from OpenAI. Deepseek’s approach is totally opposite to Openai, which from the first moment took advantage of Chatgpt to create a commercial business around that chatbot. Then the successive (and colossal) rounds of investment would arrive. The rumored SoftBank’s round, which It is estimated at 40,000 million dollarswould make its value amount to 260,000 million dollars. A small draft startup. In Financial Times they also point out that Depseek has 160 employees, something that contrasts with the more than 2,000 that OpenAi has. That has made others like Alibaba or Tencent convince business clients such as Apple, who will use QWen (from Alibaba) as an option for iPhone users in China. And with a “small” infrastructure. According to sources close to the company, Liang bought 10,000 GPUS NVIDIA H800 and 10,000 A100 in recent years. He did it before access to them was vetoed. It is not an too high amount if we compare it for example with which Elon Musk acquired In XAI, and also both are somewhat less powerful models than H100 and of course than modern B200. Deepseek R2 and V4 are on their way. The new versions of their AI models are in full development. They were expected to be launched in May, but the company may decide to accelerate that launch and make them available to the general public even before to take advantage of the good time of the company. Outstanding image | Solen Feyissa In Xataka | Deepseek, in the spotlight of European regulators: Italy and Ireland act against privacy concerns

Deepseek closes external investments and risk capital. You have three reasons to do it

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Deepseek, The great sensation of the beginning of the year in AIhe is breaking with all the rules of the startup ecosystem not only for his efficient AI modelbut also for rejecting the risk capital that other competitors need such as eating. Its founder, Liang Wenfeng, maintains 84% ​​of the property (an anomaly in its field) and does not seem to be in a hurry to give control. Chinese technology broke into the industry in January With its new AI model, but unlike its competitors, it does not announcing multimillionaire financing rounds. Nor want to do it, according to anti The three reasons. Liang Wenfeng has clear reasons to keep investors at bay: 1. He does not want to lose control of his long -term vision on AI.2. Depseek has sufficient its own financing through its High-Flyer investment fund.3. He fears that external investors, especially Chinese, intensify concerns about privacy and security. Why is it important. In a sector where competitors are launched to capture thousands of millions to finance the expensive AI race, Depseek is betting on an alternative path. Financial independence also gives Deepseek freedom to focus on research and development, instead of seeking rapid monetization that investors usually demand. Between the lines. Liang does not usually hide his distrust of investors. In a 2023 interview He openly criticized the obsession of venture capital funds by rapidly monetizing AI, to the detriment of advanced research. This position symbolizes a growing skepticism in the technological sector about whether the traditional financing model is compatible with the development of long -term transforming technologies. The figures. The Deepseek owned structure is unusual for such a powerful startup: 84% is owned by Liang Wenfeng, the founder. 16% are in the hands of people linked to their investment fund, high-flyer. 0% is of traditional external investors. In detail. Liang has funded Deepseek with the benefits of High-Flyer, its quantitative investment fund. “Money has never been a problem for us; the problem is in the prohibitions for sending advanced chips,” he said in 2023. This financial self -sufficiency has allowed Deepseek to develop without the usual external pressure of investors, usually focused on short -term growth metrics. The backdrop. As a Chinese company, Depseek operates under laws that give the Government broad access to their data. This has already caused prohibitions of use in several countries and private companies. The entry of Chinese investors could get this situation worse. The US government has history by sanctioning Chinese technology with government ties, such as Huawei and DJI. And now what. Deepseek will need more and better AI chips to stay competitive, according to Liang himself. These components are expensive and are strongly restricted in China due to the export controls of the United States. Without external financing, Depseek could be left behind in the technological career against rivals with more resources, such as OpenAi or Anthropic. Of course If someone has demonstrated ingenuityIt is Deepseek. In Xataka | Manus is the new sensation of China after Deepseek. Is generating as many expectations as doubts Outstanding image | Deepseek + Philipp Katzenberger | Alejandro Luengo

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