In theory, any AI alternative that consumes fewer resources should be better for the environment. Yet when Salon reached out to experts about the potential promise in DeepSeek’s potential “Sputnik” moment (to quote billionaire software developer Marc Andreessen), they expressed cautious optimism.

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup founded less than a year ago, has introduced its breakthrough AI model, DeepSeek R1, which is gaining attention for its performance and cost-efficiency, Reported CNN/ The model has nearly the same capabilities as other leading AI systems,

U.S. equity markets are set to open deep in the red as investors begin to digest the significance of DeepSeek’s AI reasoning model R1.

Marc Andreessen [archival audio]: The deal was somebody like me basically could start a company. You could invent a new technology, in this case, web browsers and all the other things that Netscape did. Everybody would think that that was great.

DeepSeek caused waves all over the world on Monday as one of its accomplishments — that it had created a very powerful A.I. model with far less money than many A.I. experts thought possible — raised a host of questions, including whether U.S. companies were even competitive in A.I. anymore.

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DeepSeek R1, the surprisingly efficient and powerful Chinese AI model, has taken the technology industry by storm and is rattling nerves on Wall Street.

Tech founder Marc Andreessen explained how the U.S. government's social media censorship scheme came to an end during an appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast. You can watch the full interview below this selected transcript: LEX FRIDMAN: You are a good person to speak about the history of this because you were there on the ground floor.

DeepSeek claims to use far less energy than its competitors, but there are still big questions about what that means for the environment.

It's 63% cheaper than OpenAI o1-mini and 93% cheaper than the full o1 model, priced at $1.10/$4.40 per million tokens in/out.

Right now, two premises guide my sense of the human situation. First: The virtual age and its advances are making a lot of normal human ways of life and cultural forms seem obsolete, and this sense of obsolescence is only going to increase with the spread of A.I., regardless of whether it achieves some sort of machine-god breakthrough.

Earlier in January, DeepSeek released its AI model, DeepSeek (R1), which competes with leading models like OpenAI's ChatGPT o1. What sets DeepSeek apart is its ability to develop high-performing AI models at a fraction of the cost.