Decentralized AI: Empowerment or Chaos?

How DeepSeek made a large step towards the decentralization of AI and why this matters more than you may think

Nadia Piet + AIxDESIGN & Archival Images of AI / Better Images of AI / AI Am Over It / CC-BY 4.0 — adapted by the author

On Monday 27th of January 2025, DeepSeek — a Chinese startup virtually emerging out of nowhere — released their new AI model, DeepSeek V3. Unlike other AI models, DeepSeek V3 is open-sourced, significantly cheaper, and runs on not at all state-of-the-art Nvidia GPUs, yet, its performance is kind of the same as other state-of-the-art AI models. Naturally, everyone lost their minds, , and On the other side of the globe, DeepSeek’s success , and the Hang Seng Tech Index — the Chinese tech stocks index —

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What about DeepSeek?

So, is a Chinese AI company founded in 2023 by , which has rapidly evolved into a major player in the AI sector. DeepSeek’s AI models have quickly…