Three things to know as the dust settles from DeepSeek
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Summary
OpenAI’s new artificial intelligence (AI) model, DeepSeek, has attracted a lot of attention and caused global tech companies to reassess their own products.
Now, three key impacts of the technology are emerging, all of which are expected to be influential in the long term.
Firstly, the model is forcing a debate around the amount of energy that AI models should be allowed to use when answering complex questions.
While DeepSeek is more energy efficient in its training phase than previous models, its power usage during the inference phase – when a question is asked of the model – remains high due to the complex “chain-of-thought” techniques it uses to answer queries.
Secondly, DeepSeek is likely to prompt other companies to follow its lead in automating the way in which human workers are involved in scoring the model’s answers.
Finally, the US is now facing a debate as to whether it is possible to foster an open approach to AI development, while also protecting US competitiveness against China.