DeepSeek spooks American tech industry as it tops the Apple App Store
A new Chinese AI app is sparking existential panic in American AI companies and investors.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/deepseek-spooks-american-tech-industry-as-it-tops-the-apple-app-store/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
good timing, China :)
@arstechnica hearing all these bubbles bursting like bubble wrap from here.
@arstechnica great to see that it's open source that is competing with proprietary tech! That's how humanity advances. AI should not be owned by a few tech companies.
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Best laugh I've had in a while. Thank you China. Open source no less.
@arstechnica "existential panic"
Lol, good. Parasites...
@arstechnica so… where did they get the data to train their models. All the other AI engines have been hammering the web to scrape it for content, and we see tons of posts about it. Never heard of anyone complaining about a Chinese AI scraper though.
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Does this mean that it uses a lot less energy?