Deepseek: Newcomer Challenges West AI Company's Domination

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JAKARTA - In recent years, the development of artificial intelligence (AI) has become a fierce competition between giant technology companies from the United States and Europe with new players from the Asian region. One of the names that has begun to stick out is Deepseek. An Asian-based startup that focuses on the development of a generative AI and machine learning solutions. Deep Seek's presence is considered by many analysts as a serious threat to the dominance of Western AI companies.

Deep Seek's presence took market participants by surprise on wall street, so that a number of shares of technology companies, such as Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Nvidio suddenly fell. These technology companies experienced a sharp decline, with losses reaching 1 trillion US dollars, within one night. Even Nvidia, a company that had outperformed Apple, suffered a loss of 17 percent or worth 589 billion US dollars.

The emergence of Deep Seek, which is widely related to the issue of being a new player in the world of artificial intelligence at low costs, can outperform AI players from the western world who have dominated it. Deep Seek's presence makes old AI players afraid, because the Chinese company can produce chips at low prices. Deep Seek's manufacturing costs are claimed to be only 500 billion, while similar applications such as chat gbt to hundreds of trillions.

In fact, recently global sell-off investors of technology stocks before the Chinese New Year because they heard of the presence of cheap technology. due to the company's Sale off such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google. Nvidia, the share price fell quite significantly. Nvidia is one company that a week before overtaking Apple as the world's most, world-valued company, suffered losses of up to US $ 593 billion in terms of the largest market capital for 1 day on wall street.

Deep Seek Has overtaken its competitors such as Chat Gbt, becoming number one in terms of the number of downloaders. Deep Seek is also the best application listed on the US Berkley-affiliated Board of Ranks called the Chardboat Arena.

Deepseek founded by Liang Wenfeng, an AI expert at Zhejiang University in information and electronics engineering, has attracted global attention thanks to its innovations that are able to compete with company-made AI products such as Open AI, Google, DeepMind, and Microsoft. In a short time, Deep Seek managed to launch several AI platforms capable of carrying out complex tasks, ranging from natural language processing (NLP) to predictive data analysis.

One of Deep Seek's advantages is its ability to integrate AI technology with local needs in various Asian, African and Latin American countries. This makes the solutions offered by Deep Seek more relevant and easily adopted by markets outside the West. In addition, lower development costs compared to Western companies are also a driving factor for Deep Seek's success.

Blogger is also a technology observer, Rivan Kurniawan, noting several other deep SEEdling advantages. Cheaper and more efficient, compared to other open Ai. Subscription fees for this application between 0-5 dollars, while monthly subscription fees for other AI are around 20 dollars/month, for example Deep Seek when compared to AI rates from Meta. This is because Deep Seek only costs 5-6 dollars, to train the model, compare it with giant AI companies that have to spend billions of parameters.

Deep Seek is called more sophisticated. Deep Seek's success at low cost is also AI quality which is claimed to be equivalent to AI from Google and Metta.

DeepSek represents China's success in AI technology (photo: x @Nuvemmag)

"It's okay"

Deep Seek uses advanced chips. Deep Seek V3 uses an architecture called MOI (Mister of expert), which builds up with large capital reaching up to billions of parameters, only activating certain tokens so that they are more power efficient.

While the more sophisticated model, Deepseek R1, which is a technique that divides complex society, becomes a small step before becoming an answer. thus increasing the accuracy and logic of the response. So it only takes one--10 percent of the computing power.

Third, it is Open source, because its 'open' nature is beneficial by developers and allows users to participate in developing innovations globally.

Deep Seek has overtaken its competitors such as Chat Gbt, becoming number one in terms of the number of downloaders. Deep Seek is also the best application listed on the ranking board affiliated with US Berkley called the charmbow Arena.

But despite Rivan's superiority in noting the advantages of deep-sek applications, among others, Data Privacy (servers stored on Chinese servers) - this raises concerns for users who from countries have strict data protection. Then the existence of an Information Sensor, as a product from China Deep Seek, must comply (about information subject to Chinese government restrictions, for example about demonstrations in Tiananmen, about Taiwan's status. Deep Seek is programmed according to Chinese government policies. Deep Seek is allegedly vulnerable to cyber attacks, including user opportunities for applications against cyber attacks, and also the possibility of being taken over by user applications. Deep Seek had time to stop registration because there was a massive attack, on Monday 27 January.

Threats to Western Domination?

Western technology companies have been considered global leaders in AI development. However, the presence of Deepseek and similar startups from Asia began to shift the paradigm. Technical analysts say that Deepseek not only offers competitive products, but also brings new perspectives in the development of more inclusive and diverse AI.

Liang Wenfeng, founder of China's (AI) artificial intelligence startup, DeepSeek (photo: x @Covid1984PCast)

"It's okay"

"Deepseek proves that AI innovation is no longer dominated by Western companies. They carry a different approach, which focuses more on global market needs, not just the Western market," said Dr. Li Wei, an AI expert from the University of Singapore.

In addition, Deep Seek is also considered a threat because of its ability to attract the best talents from around the world. Many AI experts who previously worked in Western companies are now turning to Deep Seek, attracted by the company's more global and inclusive vision and mission.

In response to the emergence of Deep Seek, several Western technology companies are starting to increase their investment in research and AI development. OpenAI, for example, recently announced the launch of their latest generative AI model, GPT-5, which is claimed to be more sophisticated than its predecessor. Google DeepMind is also reportedly developing more efficient and environmentally friendly AI technology.

However, some analysts predict that this competition will actually benefit the AI industry as a whole. "Healthy competition will drive innovation faster. Deepseek and Western companies will spur each other to create better technology," said Sarah Johnson, technology analyst from Gartner.

AI Future: Collaboration Or Conflict?

Despite being considered a threat, Deep Seek's presence also opens opportunities for collaboration between technology companies from the West and East. Some analysts suggest that instead of competing, these companies can work together to address global challenges, such as climate change, social inequality, and health crises.

"AI is a very powerful tool. If used properly, this technology can bring great benefits to all mankind. Collaboration between Deepseek and Western companies can be the key to achieving this goal," said Prof. Zhang Ming, a technology ethics expert from China.

Meanwhile, Deep Seek itself states that they are open to working with anyone who has the same vision. "We believe that AI's future is about collaboration, not conflict. We are ready to work with anyone to create technology that is beneficial to all," said Deep Seek CEO John Chen, in his official statement.

Deep Seek's presence has indeed changed the landscape of competition in the AI industry. Despite being considered a threat by Western AI companies, Deep Seek also brings fresh air in terms of innovation and inclusiveness. This competition is predicted to continue to spur the development of AI technology in a better direction, with the hope that in the end, all mankind will feel the benefits.

After Deep Seek emerged Alibaba, an e-commerce company from China the day after Chinese New Year, followed the launch of a self-made Ai model named Qwen 1.2 which claimed to match Deep Seek V3, Chat gbt 40, Open AI, Llama which continues to compete in fast competition, enlivening the AI market in Asia. So that the West is no longer called dominating the artificial intelligence innovation market.