China Artificial Intelligence Laboratory DeepSeek In January, the circling market proposed a massive sell-off of technology and semiconductors after revealing the AI model, which is cheaper and more efficient than Americans.
But the fundamental fear and breakthrough that triggers sales is much deeper than an AI startup. Now, Silicon Valley estimates that AI development technology, called distillation, can disrupt the AI rankings.
Distillation is a process of extracting knowledge from larger AI models to create smaller processes. It can allow small teams with little resources to make advanced models.
A leading tech company has invested years and millions of dollars to develop top-notch models from scratch. Then, a smaller team (such as Deepseek swops) trains their own more professional models by asking larger “teacher” model questions. The process creates a new model that is almost as capable as the models of large companies, but trains faster and effectively.
“This distillation technology is very powerful, very cheap and can be used by anyone,” said Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi. “We will see too much competition for LLM. This is how we enter this new era. ”
Now, distillation measures allow lower-capital startups and research labs to compete at the forefront faster than ever before.
Using this technique, Berkeley researchers They said they recreated OpenAI’s inference model for $450 in 19 hours last month. Soon after, researchers from Stanford and University of Washington create They said their own inference model used less than $50 in computational credits in just 26 minutes. Start a business Hug the face Openai’s latest and most gorgeous features, in-depth research, are a 24-hour coding challenge.
DeepSeek did not invent distillation, but it awakened the destructive potential of the AI world. It also ushered in the rise of new open source orders – a belief that transparency and accessibility can drive innovation faster than closed-door research.
“Open source always wins in the tech industry,” said Arvind Jain, CEO of Arvind Jain collectthis creates an AI-powered search engine for enterprises. “You can’t get beyond the momentum that a successful open source project can really generate.”
After DeepSeek’s achievements, Openai itself has backed its closed strategy.
Openai CEO Ultraman Write In a post on Reddit on January 31.
The new discovery of traction and the increasingly popular combination of open source completely transforms the competitive dynamics in AI.
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