Chris Stokel-Walker: DeepSeek equals ChatGPT

China’s DeepSeek AI could be a direct rival to ChatGPT, says tech journalist and author Chris Stokel-Walker.   #DeepSeek #ChatGPT

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00:00First up, I mean, is DeepSeek as good as ChatGPT, do you think?

00:06Based on the model's testing that we've seen so far, it does seem to be pretty much the

00:11equal. And this is, I suppose, all the more surprising because of the way in which it's

00:15trained, which is much less labor intensive, much less expensive, and frankly, uses much

00:21less powerful AI chips of the type that have really been powering the AI revolution for

00:27the last two years plus to achieve those same goals. So this is seen as equal under many

00:32tests to the paid version of OpenAI's ChatGPT and is available for free for many users.

00:38So it has lots of people spooked.