THE’artificial intelligence It has become a clash between the great powers. China And United States They are engaged in this new “space race”, in an attempt to maintain a continuous advantage on the opponent in terms of innovation and technological development. Until recently, Washington’s supremacy seemed undisputed, but a shock arrived from Beijing who, for a moment, changed the cards on the table.
In January he made his debut Deepsekan artificial intelligence that has reached high performance with an expense, according to what has been declared by the company that developed it, of 6 million dollars. A much lower figure than that expense for the IA of the Giants of Silicon Valley, such as Chatgpt. It seemed like a real revolution, it destines to shake the foundations of the sector and force the big tech to run for cover. In reality, the shaking brought by Deepseek seems to have been short -lived. Openii exceeded 400 million weekly active users despite the presence of Chinese artificial intelligence, towards which serious accusations were moved.
According to the “Tsar” of the White House AI David Sacksthere is substantial evidence of the fact that Deepseek has leaning on the output of the models of the US company to develop its technology, through the technique of “distillation“. And some Microsoft’s security researchers said that, in last autumn, some individuals connected to Deepseek have exfilt a large amount of data using the Openai applications programming.
In all this, it also took the field Elon Muskwho besides making an offer to buy Sam Altman’s startup, presented his artificial intelligence: Grok 3. This model would be higher than chatgpt, even capable of generating the code for a 3D animation in ten minutes that simulates the launch of a spacecraft from the earth and that lands on Mars, or to develop a working video game. The patron of Tesla called it “the most intelligent IA on the planet”. Another high profile competitor, therefore, who joins the struggle.
And Europe? The old continent has remained behind compared to other leading actors in the artificial intelligence sector. Only in early February, the Union launched Openeurollm.
It is an ambitious initiative, based on the alliance between the main European companies of IA and research institutes and with the aim of developing the latest generation open source linguistic models. The project, however, will be limited by the ACT, the regulation whose first prohibitions have entered into force in February and which aims to limit the most risky uses of artificial intelligence.