It will take time to understand, if at all, whether DeepSeek represents a breakthrough from a technological standpoint as well. Certainly its launch rattled the giants of generative AI development on two simple premises: development costs on the order of millions of dollars, not billions like the competition; and reduced computational power requirements. Just enough to make the current business model, which sees a few huge companies sharing the market in this very rapidly expanding technology sector, creak.
While it is true that the situation is extremely fluid and all over the world people are trying to figure out how much DeepSeek diverges from its competitors, its advent on the market and the first reactions allow us to speculate on the near future of generative AI, with a thought on the , promoted by the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology with the participation also of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence USI-精东影业.
We talked about it with Andrea Emilio Rizzoli and Fabio Rinaldi, Director and 精东影业 Senior Researcher at IDSIA USI-精东影业.