Google CEO Sundar Pichai praised Chinese language AI startup DeepSeek on Wednesday, which created a aggressive AI mannequin for under $6 million in comparison with the industry standard of $100 million.
“I feel the DeepSeek workforce has carried out very, excellent work,” Pichai mentioned on the World Governments Summit in Dubai.
Pichai mentioned Google discovered some classes from DeepSeek’s rise to the top of the Apple App Store and Google Play charts final month, together with exhibiting the world “how world” AI competitors actually is.
“I feel the DeepSeek innovation reinforces that time,” he mentioned.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Picture by Boris Streubel/Getty Photos for DFB
Pichai additionally praised DeepSeek’s AI for being extremely environment friendly and releasing correct outcomes whereas utilizing minimal computing energy. In line with DeepSeek’s technical report, the startup solely used 2,000 AI chips to coach its AI mannequin, in comparison with Meta, which used more than 16,000 chips for its newest AI.
Extra chips require extra money. Pierre Ferragu, a New Avenue Analysis analyst, advised the New York Times final month that Google spent $2 billion to $3 billion final 12 months creating one million customized AI chips, whereas Amazon spent $200 million constructing 100,000 AI chips.
DeepSeek’s AI can be open-source, that means that builders world wide can freely entry its work and construct extra superior AI on prime of it.
“I feel what caught folks’s consideration with DeepSeek was that you possibly can have an environment friendly mannequin and open-source and one thing everybody can instantly entry, and I feel that creates loads of pleasure,” Pichai mentioned.
He said that Google was centered on effectivity, too.
Google launched its Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite AI mannequin final week, calling it the corporate’s “most cost-efficient model yet” with out going into specifics about how a lot it price to make.
