DeepSeek: How the "Whale" is toppling International markets
DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup, shook the markets this Monday, causing Nvidia shares to fall 17% and putting AI tech giants on alert.
Just one week after Trump's big announcement about the creation of Stargate, this new company led by three tech giants such as OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank to develop Artificial Intelligence infrastructures, China is shaking up -down to the foundations- the field of Artificial Intelligence with a startup called "DeepSeek".
With a whale as its symbol - reminiscent of the tale of Sinbad the Sailor, swallowed by a whale - the Chinese tech startup caused Nvidia to lose over USD 593 billion in a single day, and its shares fell by 17%. The reason? Analysts indicate that its AI model delivers better results at a fraction of the cost of its competition, proving to be more efficient and less resource-intensive.
What is DeepSeek?
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The so-called Chinese "ChatGPT", DeepSeek, is an open-source artificial intelligence company of Chinese origin and is completely free, hence it does not require any type of subscription and needs very few chips for its training. Although the chat has a linguistic model (LLM) very similar to Microsoft's Copilot, Alphabet's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT.
According to experts explained to Bloomberg Online, "China has been aiming to achieve cost efficiency and low resource consumption in order to reach its goal of being a global manufacturing powerhouse. For this reason, the profitability of DeepSeek fits in with the broader development strategy of the Asian giant".
Bloomberg Intelligence analysts, Robert Lea and Jasmine Lyu indicated to the cited medium, "the large, innovative, and low-cost language model of DeepSeek supports our view that China is well-positioned as the main AI contender for the United States."
Meanwhile, according to the Reuters report citing the Chinese startup, it states that 'the engineers from the tech company, DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1, are on par with the most advanced models from OpenAI and Meta.'