Chinese startup says it can compete with ChatGTP, others using less chips and energy. A University at Albany expert doesn't believe tech poses a threat.
But this costs a lot of money. Nvidia’s Blackwell chip – the world’s most powerful AI chip to date – costs around US$40,000 per unit, and AI companies often need tens of thousands of them.
For a slew of AI chip companies chomping to dethrone Nvidia, DeepSeek is the opening they’ve been waiting for. A day after Chinese upstart DeepSeek wiped more than a staggering $800 billion from ...