
The news spread forcefully yesterday, January 27, and its effect on the American stock exchange on Wall Street was explosive, with stocks of companies such as NVIDIA reporting capitalization losses of up to 600 billion dollars, the largest in history. But what was this news? A Chinese startup, DEEPSEEK, has launched its new AI model that apparently does not require very powerful hardware to work, apparently even better than ChatGPT.

DeepSeek R1 is an artificial intelligence model developed by the Chinese startup DeepSeek, founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng. Launched on January 20, 2025, this model stands out for its advanced reasoning capabilities, solving complex problems in mathematics, programming, and natural language inference. As mentioned, despite its high performance, DeepSeek R1 is significantly cheaper to run than competing models such as those from OpenAI.
A distinctive feature of DeepSeek R1 is its open source approach, which allows users and companies to modify and integrate the model into other applications. This transparency has contributed to its rapid diffusion, making it the most downloaded free app on the Apple App Store in the United States, surpassing ChatGPT.

The success of DeepSeek R1 has had a significant impact on the global technology market, causing the stock prices of companies such as NVIDIA and Microsoft to decline. This development raises questions about the huge investments needed to develop new AI technologies.
However, it is important to note that DeepSeek R1 has some limitations, particularly regarding sensitive political topics in China, where the model may be biased in favor of official propaganda.
In summary, DeepSeek R1 represents a significant step forward in artificial intelligence, offering powerful reasoning capabilities at lower costs, although it does have some limitations related to sensitive content. If you want to try its potential you can do so directly on WEBSITE or download the app for Android and IOS.
We will see in the next few days/months if all this is real or the classic news leaked ad hoc by the Chinese government to hide data on an economy that appears to be in recession for the third consecutive year.