China’s DeepSeek chatbot reportedly gets much more done with fewer GPUs but Nvidia still thinks it’s ‘excellent’ news
China’s new DeepSeek R1 language model has been shaking things up by reportedly matching or even beating the performance of established rivals including OpenAI while using far fewer GPUs. Nvidia’s response? R1 is “excellent” news that proves the need for even more of its AI-accelerating chips. If you’re thinking the math doesn’t immediately add up,…