Beijing (Reuters) – Bloggers, state press and local citizens have received the global success of Deepseek with pride and joy in China, with some saying that the meteoric rise of the local AI startup is a sign of reaction to Washington attempts to contain the sector. of technology in the country.
The launched a free AI assistant last week who, according to the company, uses less data for a fraction of the cost of existing services. Last Monday, he surpassed American competitor Chatgpt in Downloads on Apple’s App Store, causing a global sale of technology actions.
The apparent capacity of the Chinese company to equate OpenAI resources at a much lower cost has raised questions about the sustainability of business models and profit margins from US Artificial Intelligence Giants, such as Nvidia and Microsoft.
In China, it has increased hope that the country can successfully resist Washington export controls against state -of -the -art access to state semiconductors.
“This also symbolizes that US containment, persecution, and sanctions against China in the field of advanced technology have completely failed,” wrote Military Affairs commentator Chen XI on his Wechat account on Wednesday.
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Deepseek technology should serve as a stimulus for US companies and that it is good for Chinese companies to have created a cheaper and faster artificial intelligence method.
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The Press Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Government, where DeepSeek is headquartered, published a long rehearsal on Wednesday that has virally viralized and was read over 100,000 times.
“The moon abroad is not, in fact, rounder; Everything others can do, we can also do and even do better, ”says the rehearsal, who also criticizes overly triumphant or pessimistic online opinions regarding China’s technological development.
“We need to leave the narrow prism of triumphalism,” the department argued.
Still, the feeling around DeepSek echoes the public reaction to the surprise launch of the Huawei Mate 60 Smartphone in 2023, during a visit by the then US Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, who led the Biden government’s efforts to Restrict Chinese access to the edge chips.
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At the time, the Global Times state support newspaper said Huawei’s ability to produce a top smartphone, despite years of US -targeted sanctions, showed that Washington had failed in his “extreme repression” to China.
Chen Jiaenu, a 38 -year -old employee from a sustainable development magazine in Beijing, said he was proud of Deepseek’s popularity abroad after realizing that the issue was on the rise on the Chinese social networking platform.
“China has made great progress in the development of artificial intelligence and I hope the technological development of our country will be better and better,” he said.
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Leo Li, a 24 -year -old student, said he is happy for a Chinese company to be at the same level as companies as a goal and OpenAi and would consider using DeepSek AI tools.
“I feel very proud of this, because, as a Chinese citizen, we have this research and development (AI) that has become a global feeling,” he said.
