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DeepSeek AI launch sees $1tn wiped off world’s biggest tech companies (www.independent.co.uk)

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DeepSeek is an AI assistant which appears to have fared very well in tests against some more established AI models developed in the US, causing alarm in some areas over not just how advanced it is, but how quickly and cost effectively it was produced.

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Individual companies from within the American stock markets have been even harder-hit by sell-offs in pre-market trading, with Microsoft down more than six per cent, Amazon more than five per cent lower and Nvidia down more than 12 per cent.

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[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

It depends on what type of licensing. One way it could be beneficial to them (and this is me purely speculating with no checking) is that any work done from outside of their company on their code base is basically free labor. Yeah, they'll lose some potential revenue from people running their own instances of the code, but most people will use their app.