{"id":15470,"date":"2025-02-12T10:24:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T15:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/?p=15470"},"modified":"2025-02-12T20:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T01:34:09","slug":"deepseek-innovation-or-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/2025\/02\/12\/deepseek-innovation-or-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"BU News Service: Deepseek – An Innovation or New Competition?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Excerpt from Boston University News Service | By: Daniela L. Ginsburg | <\/span>February 12, 2025\u00a0| <\/span>Photo: Justin Sullivan<\/p>\n

On Jan. 27, the China-based company Deepseek sent shock waves through Wall Street.<\/p>\n

In its stunning latest version, the Chinese-made artificial intelligence platform rose the ranks in the Apple Store as it offered a cutting-edge model for a portion of the budget. United States President Donald Trump called it a \u201cwake-up call\u201d for US companies who need to be \u201ccompeting to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, the private company claims to utilize fewer chips and a cheaper AI training model than its rivals. Deepseek trained its AI model for around $6 million, compared to ChatGPT which reported to have spent around $100 million.<\/p>\n

Thomas Gardos, an Associate Professor of Computing and Data Science at Boston University, said that these key differences caused a panic and resulted in many major private companies pulling and selling off stock, creating a stock-market selloff. Gardos also said that besides these two major selling points, the model remained relatively the same as its rival competitors.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the consumer level, there\u2019s really no differences,\u201d Gardos said. \u201cThat\u2019s why there was a sell off, they seem to be competitive with open AI at a fraction of the cost.\u201d<\/p>\n

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BU CDS Professor Thomas Gardos was interviewed recently regarding new AI frontrunner Deepseek. Read here about Gardos’ insight into the company’s ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18839,"featured_media":15471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251,5,317,230,35,244],"tags":[34,377,525,279,708,316,479],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15472,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15470\/revisions\/15472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}