World News: DeepSeek, the Unknown AI, from China
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- Category: World News
- Published on Tuesday, 28 January 2025 06:50
- Written by Olivier Longhi
The unexpected emergence of DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence application, further reinforces the trade war between China and the United States in this field. The challenge is the domination of AI tools on a global scale.
A slap in the face! Almost a slap in the face! This is what Donald Trump, President of the United States, and the Wall Street Stock Exchange received together via the Nasdaq index, more than shaken up by the new Chinese artificial intelligence application DeepSeek.
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Appearing, at the end of the day on January 27, as the first of the applications downloaded on the AppStore, in doing so inflicting a vertiginous fall on the Nasdaq, DeepSeek has sent the President of the United States back, for a time and if possible, to the field of modesty who said he was "worried about the situation."
Quietly and confidentially, the Chinese application has made the giants of the field tremble to the point that they are now questioning, and in a hurry, their overall strategy. Because beyond the stock market jolt that will only last for a short time and will be quickly digested, it is above all the global environment of artificial intelligence that is being turned upside down.
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Far from the pharaonic development plans and imbued with an overpower tinged with condescension imagined by Donald Trump via his StarGate project (funded to the tune of 500 billion dollars), the Chinese application, opens or confirms, it will be up to each person to choose his position, the trade war between China and the United States.
Let's not even mention Europe, which, although noticed for its progress and its ideas in the field of AI (in particular the French company Mistral), can in no way compete, for the moment at least, with the giants in the running. Because it is indeed a question of global pre-eminence that is hidden behind this rivalry with soft power overtones.
Banned from entering the United States, but in the process of being potentially bought by Microsoft, Tik Tok, the sworn enemy of the new president of the White House, has more or less been avenged by Deep Seek, in charge of competing with American AI. But the unexpected emergence of DeepSeek also raises questions about the resources deployed and necessary to develop artificial intelligence applications. Less energy-intensive, free and equipped with less powerful processors but designed in Open Source mode, DeepSeek is a David against the North American Goliath.
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And the reflection goes further: does AI require as many resources deployed by the current giants as those committed by DeepSeek for an equal or even better result? The answer is: maybe. And this is if AI is considered as an element of economic and political power capable of consolidating the pre-eminence of a nation wanted, by Donald Trump and his cronies, to be the world's leading nation.
From a Chinese point of view, let us not delude ourselves, the desire for domination is the same but is less noisy than that of the Western rival. Is it more pernicious? Nothing suggests it, but it has become clear that artificial intelligence has become a strategic issue with a political, economic and, ultimately, geopolitical vocation. Because the ability to influence public opinion of such a tool, seen and used by many as a facilitator, can potentially turn out, on the other hand, to be a tool for large-scale manipulation.
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Bio: Olivier Longhi has extensive experience in European history. A seasoned journalist with fifteen years of experience, he is currently a professor of history and geography in the Toulouse region of France. He has held a variety of publishing positions, including Head of Agency and Chief of Publishing. A journalist and recognized blogger, editor, and editorial project manager, he has trained and managed editorial teams, worked as a journalist for various local radio stations, was a press and publishing consultant, and was a communications consultant.
