The launch of the Deepseek-R1 artificial intelligence model (AI) by China is much more than a technological event. It symbolizes a strategic change in the global competition for control of key technologies. Presented as designed with a modest budget of $ 5.5 million (5.4 million euros) and limited technical resources, this model competes with tools like Chatgpt-4 of Openai, which required hundreds of millions dollars and the most advanced infrastructure. Deepseek-R1 shakes up the world technological order while raising questions of sovereignty and digital ethics. For several decades, Silicon Valley, a beating heart of American technological innovation, has defended the idea that major IA advances have required massive investments and ultra -speaking infrastructure. This vision resulted in the domination of a few companies (Google, Openai, Microsoft), which concentrate colossal financial resources and exclusive skills. It is this logic which justifies under the new Trump administration the launch of programs such as Stargate [un projet de data centers]aimed at securing massive private investments [500 milliards de dollars annoncés d’ici à 2029]to protect American technological domination in the face of the rise of China. This vision is undermined by the launch of Deepseek-R1. Alternatively developed with NVIDIA H800 fleas (much less efficient than the H100s used by OPENAI), and at low cost, this model seems to have surmounted strong material and structural limits. In comparison, Chatgpt-4 would have required 50 million to 60 million hours GPU [unité de temps pour réaliser les cartes graphiques considérées comme indispensables au développement de l’IA générative]mobilizing infrastructure whose cost exceeds $ 100 million. If this is exact, the sanctions imposed by the United States since 2017, aimed at restricting access from China to advanced semiconductors, will therefore have not slowed down this progression. You have 61.59% of this article to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
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Publish date : 2025-01-29 20:54:51
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