① Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt called for the USA to intensify efforts in open-source AI to counter the rise of China's DeepSeek AI model; ② Schmidt referred to the rise of DeepSeek as a "turning point" in the Global AI race; ③ Schmidt suggested that the USA should develop more open-source models and encourage laboratories to share training methods.
According to Caijing News on January 29 (Editor: Zhou Ziyi), former Google CEO Eric Schmidt called on the USA to increase efforts in open-source AI to address the rise of China's AI large model DeepSeek in a column article published on Tuesday (January 28).
Schmidt also changed his previous narrative that the USA was leading, stating in the column that the rise of DeepSeek marks a "turning point" in the Global AI competition, proving that China can compete with large tech companies with fewer resources.
Schmidt pointed out that to compete with DeepSeek, the USA must develop more open-source models, invest in AI infrastructure like "Stargate," and encourage leading laboratories to share their training methods.
"Stargate" is an AI project jointly created by OpenAI, SoftBank, and$Oracle (ORCL.US)$initial investment of 100 billion USD, and plans to expand to 500 billion USD in the next four years.
Schmidt has previously urged the USA to invest in AI multiple times, as his personal investments might also benefit from it. Schmidt's startup White Stork may provide AI Drones for the US military. He is also an investor in holistic AI Holistic AI (which helps companies comply with AI regulations) and AI programming assistant Augment (a competitor to GitHub Copilot).
The Global AI Industry is recently witnessing a surge of "Eastern power," namely the DeepSeek R1 model released by Hangzhou DeepSeek last week. According to the company, compared to the billions of dollars invested by large American tech companies in chatbots, it built the large model DeepSeek that can compete with OpenAI's strongest reasoning model o1 at only a fraction of the cost.
It is reported that the cost of training the flagship v3 model behind the DeepSeek AI assistant was only 5.6 million dollars.
The launch of DeepSeek R1 has also triggered a shockwave in the Technology Industry, causing major tech companies, including$Microsoft (MSFT.US)$Meta and$NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$to experience significant declines in stock prices this week.
Bank of America Analyst Justin Post wrote in a report this Monday (the 127th) that, "If the model training costs prove to be significantly reduced, we expect companies in advertising, travel, and other Consumer applications using cloud AI services to gain cost benefits in the short term, while the long-term revenue and costs associated with large-scale AI may decrease."
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