Newswise — Had DeepSeek been developed anywhere other than China, the narrative around it would be different, according to Carlos Gershenson-Garcia, an AI expert and professor in the School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
"I think that if DeepSeek had been developed in California (or Russia), the narrative would be very different. I think there are positive and negative aspects to it, but I tend to focus on the positive ones," said Gershenson-Garcia.
"OpenAI had already announced during the release of ChatGPT 4 that their next version would be striving to be a smaller model, rather than bigger trained with more data," he said. "On the one hand, because it is too expensive to train such huge models. On the other hand, because they already used all data available on the Internet and more."
Gershenson-Garcia said it's natural that competition would arise, both nationally and internationally.
"Of course, DeepSeek is not the final word -- there will still be more improvements coming soon. The fact that it is Chinese makes the “race” international, but it should be no surprise. China a $150 billion plan to be AI leaders by 2030. This was during Trump’s first administration, and he announced that the USA would also invest in AI, but something in the order of millions."
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