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Chinese artificial intelligence groups have prompted model updates before the New Year’s lunar holiday, as the world wakes up to the main advances of the DEEPSEEK-based sector on the face of chip restrictions.
On Monday, on the eve of China’s most important annual celebration, Hangzhou -based company issued a new open -sourced image -generating model, cementing its reputation as a commander in a previously dominated field by American giants. It came hot on the model of model publications from Alibaba and Start-Up Moonshot and Zipu.
“This is the equivalent of throwing a massive release on Christmas Eve. We have all worked overtime to get things before the holiday,” said a product manager in a large model of language model.
While Deepseek’s achievement has fueled panic in the US over the advances that Chinese laboratories are making in bootstrapped budgets, industry interior say it is being fed in a new “faith” in China that will promote investments.
“Deepseek has made faster progress than other Chinese model companies. But that is giving them confidence that they can reach, ”he said an investor in China.
Deepseek has attracted the world’s attention with a series of models omissions that show performance similar to those of American rivals such as Openai and Meta, although it claims to have some computing sources and is blocked by the purchase of the latest Nvidia processors by us export restrictions. Last week, she released his reasoning model R1, an advanced model that rivals O1 O1 and can automatically learn and improve herself without human supervision.
“Deepseek has injected a lot of energy into China’s players and, more widely, into the global open source community of the one who will use his findings from her R1 letter to advance in reasoning patterns,” said Wang Tiezhen , an engineer in he Hustion Hub hugging the face.
This week, investors launched shares related to him, with Nvidia losing nearly $ 600 billion in market value on Monday. They were responding to Chinese advances that show that it is possible to build powerful models while following a different strategy for the US one of the building of increasingly computing groups to advance in the race.
On Monday, the Alibaba qwen released QWen2.5-1m, a series of new models that are capable of treating longer inputs, an important development which means that the model can be set for the applications of it agents With higher memory requirements, according to Wang.
On the same day, Deepseek released Janus-Pro, a text-to-image generation model that claims it can exceed the state of art by competitors such as Openai’s Dall 3 and the stability of the stability of it in Some standards.
Zipu, worth in his last round of financing in December with $ 3BN, last week issued an updating in GLM-PC. The model of that agent is aimed at enterprise clients, enabling computers to automatically complete tasks such as complementing forms or digestion of financial reports.
While Zipu has not attracted much attention to its LLM development, it has a superiority between the local beginnings of it in commercializing its technology, with support from local governments and state -owned enterprises that have partner with Beijing -based company to set models its.
Last week, another Beijing -based start -up moonshot, which owns Kimi Chemistry Chatbot, updated his model of reasoning in chemistry K1.5, demonstrating strong results compared to his models for complex tasks of reasoning. The last release can process texts and images while dealing with long and complex questions.
Practice is a standard practice for Chinese technology companies to release products before the long holiday, with the increased benefit that potential customers with a lot of free time during rest can test and explore them.
Once Chinese players return from their vacation, the race is becoming the leading player who develops his apps for commercial use. “If he can create a dramatic trade value, one or two of the LLM players have a chance to become a new generation of software companies,” he said.
