#DeepSeekImpact

DeepSeek is shaking up the artificial intelligence sector

By developing DeepSeek-R1, a model as powerful as those of American leaders such as OpenAI or Google, but with fewer resources and in open source, DeepSeek is shaking up Silicon Valley.

Nearly 590 billion dollars (564 billion euros) of stock market valuation lost in one day… This is the historic record broken by Nvidia, whose share price lost 16.86% on Wall Street on Monday, January 27. If the world leader in specialized processors for artificial intelligence (AI) is plummeting like this, it is because the markets are impressed by DeepSeek, a Chinese start-up that has published a model with performance comparable to that of leaders OpenAI or Google, but at a lower development cost in computer calculation.

“DeepSeek-R1 is the Sputnik moment of AI,” Marc Andreessen, one of Silicon Valley’s best-known venture capitalists, said on the X platform on Sunday, referring to the launch of the first Soviet satellite in 1957. “It’s like the emergence of Japanese cars in the 1960s,” one user replied.