Recently, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt published an article strongly calling on the US government to increase its investment in the research and development of open source artificial intelligence to meet the challenges from China's DeepSeek. He believes that the rise of DeepSeek marks a major change in the global AI competitive landscape, and China has achieved its ability to compete with large technology companies at a relatively low cost, which deserves great attention from the United States. The article analyzes the key factors for DeepSeek's success and proposes the US response strategy, which has attracted widespread attention. This article will interpret the core views of Schmidt's article and explore the deep meaning behind it.
In an op-ed article, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt called on the United States to increase its research and development efforts in open source artificial intelligence to cope with the rise of DeepSeek.
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Schmidt believes that the rise of DeepSeek marks a turning point in the global AI race, proving that China can use fewer resources to compete with big tech companies. Schmidt noted that in order to fight DeepSeek, the United States must develop more open source models, invest in artificial intelligence infrastructure such as Stargate, and encourage leading labs to share their training methods.
He also emphasized that DeepSeek's success lies not only in its technological advancement, but also in its open source strategy, which allows more AI teams to develop more AI native applications based on state-of-the-art models. Zheng Weimin, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor of the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University, pointed out that the reasons for DeepSeek's successful emergence are mainly concentrated in three aspects: DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1 models respectively realize the capabilities of GPT-4o and o1 models that are comparable to OpenAI. At the same time, the cost is only about one-tenth of the OpenAI model.
In addition, DeepSeek also open sourced the technologies of these two models, further promoting the popularization and application of AI technology.
Points:
Former Google CEO Schmidt called on the United States to increase its efforts to develop open source AI.
The rise of DeepSeek marks a new turning point in the global AI competition.
The DeepSeek-V3 and R1 models have excellent performance and low cost, which promotes the popularization of AI technology.
Schmidt's call highlights the importance of open source artificial intelligence in international competition. DeepSeek's successful cases provide reference for other countries and provide new inspiration for the future development direction of artificial intelligence technology. This competition is not only about technology, but also about national strategy and future development.