Why ChatGPT is better than DeepSeek
DeepSeek initially had high hopes. As an AI chatbot marketed as a strong competitor to ChatGPT, it promised intelligent conversational capabilities and experiences.
DeepSeek, the Chinese company behind the free AI model that shook the tech world, is facing a number of negative allegations, including using smuggled Nvidia GPUs to train and run its eponymous AI model.
Accordingly, the US Department of Commerce is considering investigating whether DeepSeek illegally accessed and obtained Nvidia GPUs through intermediaries in Singapore. In recent years, the United States has maintained strict restrictions on the export of advanced chips to China, in order to maintain its leading position in technology and slow down the rapid development of its competitors.
DeepSeek recently made headlines with the release of its R1 inference model, which is said to be close in performance to OpenAI’s o1 model, which is only available as part of the ChatGPT Pro subscription plan that requires a paid subscription. What makes DeepSeek so appealing is that it not only has similar performance, but it is also released as open source and free to everyone. Those who have never had the chance to experience OpenAI’s cutting-edge inference model now have DeepSeek R1 as a worthy alternative.
DeepSeek was so popular that the app rose to No. 1 on the US App Store charts, causing the US stock market to plummet with $2 trillion in market capitalization wiped out in just a few days.
Notably, DeepSeek claims that it did all this with just 2,000 Nvidia H800 GPUs and an estimated $6 million in investment costs, a small number compared to the huge investments poured into OpenAI and many other similar AI models.
According to Citigroup, US tech giants like Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Alphabet spent a combined $209 billion on data infrastructure last year, with 80% of that going to data centers. This has led many to question whether DeepSeek is truly different from OpenAI and other US AI companies, and whether it is really possible to train AI models with so many fewer resources.

David Sacks, a former artificial intelligence official under President Donald Trump, said in a recent interview that there is “substantial evidence” that DeepSeek has been sifting OpenAI’s output to train its own models. This sifting process involves a “child model” (DeepSeek) mimicking the reasoning of the “parent model” (OpenAI), similar to how humans learn, by asking millions of questions. Microsoft and OpenAI have also launched their own investigations into the matter, primarily to determine whether DeepSeek improperly accessed OpenAI’s data.
DeepSeek says it uses the H800 chip — an AI chipset that Nvidia developed specifically for the Chinese market after export controls were first imposed. It’s unclear how DeepSeek acquired the Nvidia H800s, but the company could have purchased them in late 2022 or 2023.
There is no evidence that DeepSeek used smuggled chips. But many Chinese AI companies are believed to have done so. Organized smuggling of AI chips into China has been observed in several countries, including Malaysia, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates.
DeepSeek initially had high hopes. As an AI chatbot marketed as a strong competitor to ChatGPT, it promised intelligent conversational capabilities and experiences.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has just officially released its latest large language model (LLM), DeepSeek-V3-0324.
In January, Microsoft announced plans to bring NPU-optimized versions of the DeepSeek-R1 model directly to Copilot+ computers running on Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors.
China-based AI app DeepSeek is currently leading the app store charts.
Bad guys are creating thousands of DeepSeek-like websites in the hopes that unsuspecting users will give them their personal information.
Japanese investment giant Softbank is planning to invest between $15 billion and $25 billion in OpenAI. If the deal goes through, Softbank will become OpenAI’s largest investor, replacing Microsoft.
A series of DeepSeek scam ads on Google are delivering dangerous information-stealing malware to unsuspecting DeepSeek users.
China-based artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is planning to be more “transparent” about the technology behind its open-source AI models, such as the R1 reasoning model.
Huawei is embarking on a completely Android-free era with the Pura X, a new foldable phone that runs the company's HarmonyOS 5 software and doesn't include an option for people to use Google's operating system.
DeepSeek is the name of a Chinese artificial intelligence company and its eponymous chatbot. The company's flagship models, DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1, have made waves because they are cheaper to train and use than comparable models.
The past week has not been a happy one for Nvidia investors or fans.
Whether Alibaba's claims will come true remains to be seen, but it looks like ChatGPT and DeepSeek now have a worthy new competitor.
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