DeepSeek just shook up the artificial intelligence (AI) world in the biggest way since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late 2022. The Chinese company's new R1 large language model (LLM) reportedly matches or beats OpenAI's o1 model on some benchmarks.

While the demand is there, it's clear that's not the sole reason why Nvidia's RTX 50 series is impossible to find in stores. Many retailers received fairly low stock quantities, as Nvidia reportedly experienced manufacturing issues.

Nvidia called DeepSeek’s R1 model “an excellent AI advancement,” despite the Chinese startup’s emergence causing the chipmaker’s stock price to plunge 17%.

B AI model on its wafer-scale processor, delivering 57x faster speeds than GPU solutions and challenging Nvidia's AI chip dominance with U.S.-based inference processing.

US officials are probing whether Chinese AI startup DeepSeek bought advanced Nvidia Corp. semiconductors through third parties in Singapore, circumventing US restrictions on sales of chips used for artificial intelligence tasks,

U.S. officials are investigating whether Chinese AI startup DeepSeek sourced advanced Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) processors through Singapore distributors to bypass U.S. sanctions, Bloomberg reported. The probe centers

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) made stock market history on Monday, Jan. 27, but not the good kind. The chipmaker saw its share price decline 17%, due to concerns about an artificial intelligence (AI) model from Chinese start-up DeepSeek.

Despite the negative financial impact, Nvidia praised DeepSeek’s breakthrough. “DeepSeek is an excellent A.I. advancement and a perfect example of test time scaling,” a company spokesperson told Observer in a statement.

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Development on the first DeepSeek R1 clone might have started with the announcement of the Open-R1 open-source project.

DeepSeek R1 is available as an Nvidia Inference Microservice (NIM) preview on the company’s website, Nvidia said in a statement. NIM is a service that allows developers to deploy and use AI programs on their personal systems while using remote Nvidia hardware.

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