The impact of a global shake up in the world of AI begins
The world of artificial intelligence had a rude awakening over the winter. Towards the end of January, a Chinese chatbot interloper called DeepSeek popped up and within a week was causing convulsions in stock markets and the tech industry.
Not only did Deepseek start attracting more downloads than its established US rivals, but it did so at a fraction of the cost. President Trump, who had only just pledged hundreds of billions of dollars to boost American AI, described the emergence of DeepSeek as “a wake-up call” for the industry.Subsequently, concerns were raised over DeepSeek users’ privacy and state security; over Chinese censorship of the site; and over the reliability of its content, with NewsGuard – a rating service that analyses devices for their accuracy – finding the chatbot only managed a 17 per cent score in delivering wholly accurate news and information.On the plus side, Computerworld magazine pointed out: “DeepSeek’s cost-saving techniques for training and delivering generative AI models could democratise the entire industry by lowering entry barriers for new AI companies.”
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