The Chinese chatgpt called "Deepseek" was released a few days ago, offering impressive performance compared to what it consumes. The new mastodon offers free access to the R1 model, which includes an advanced reasoning capacity. If the development cost of $ 5.6 million for R1 is considered unlikely by experts, itslow consumptionis very real.
Ainvestigationrecent published by Bloomberg suggests thatDeepseek would have acquired 50,000 ia nvidia hooper fleas (H100, H800 and H20)By bypassing American export restrictions, thanks to intermediaries based in Singapore.
The amount of these chips is estimated tomore than a billion dollars, which means that the cost of development could be much more than 5.6 million. If the acquisition of NVIDIA GPUs via Singapore by bypassing American laws is true, then Deepseek has of course no interest in giving the real cost of developing its "R1" model.
While the newcomer is already in theCollimator of Western regulators, actors in the AI sector must adapt to this new fierce competition.Openai quickly deployed its new modelsO3-Mini and O3-High, which had probably been ready for some time. It is likely that Optai had echoes concerning the arrival of Deepseek, given the speed of the response.
Google with Gemini and French Mistral have also announced that their own alternatives would soon be available. It is in this context that we learn today thatA European actor is preparing his response to the Chinese and Americans.
An alliance of 20 European organizations
These are Openeurollm, an initiative carried bymore than 20 institutionsresearch, European companies and European calculation centers. The objective? Develop a family of high performance open source language models.
Led by Jan Hajič of Charles University in the Czech Republic and Peter Sarlin, co-founder of Silo AI (bought by AMD), the Alliance includes actors like Aleph Alpha, CSC Finland and Lights on.
Supported by the European Commission with aBudget The 52 Millions the EURO, the project aims to strengthen digital sovereignty of the continent against the American and Chinese giants. Openeurollm promises open, transparent models and adaptable to the specific needs of European public companies and services.
A strategic issue for Europe
Facingthe threat represented by the dazzling advances of the United States and China, Europe plays its digital future. According to Peter Sarlin, it is not simply a question of creating a large public chatbot, but of building the IA infrastructure allowing European companies to innovate. Whether they are specialized medical assistants or financial services, the objective is to provideCustom tools, controlled and adapted to the local context.
Openeurollm, according to him, embodies the hope of a third way, respectful of democratic values and linguistic and cultural diversity of the continent.The first models should be available in a few months.
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