VentureBeat January 27, 2025
DeepSeek, the fast-growing Chinese AI company, is shaking up global technology yet again. Just as the rapid rise of the company’s frontier AI models triggered a sell-off of U.S. artificial intelligence stocks, the company launched a brand new product: Janus Pro 7B, an open-source vision-based AI model. (You can try a demo right here.)
This unexpected release from DeepSeek intensifies investor worries about China’s growing power in AI and further pressures American tech companies. The company curiously released Janus Pro 7B today as U.S. AI stocks plunged, a timing that appears to be deliberate and designed to highlight the Beijing-based firm’s challenge to Silicon Valley.
DeepSeek’s latest launch follows its release last week of the frontier R1 large language model....
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