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Last year, amid the uproar caused by the arrival of ChatGpt, a Chinese government newspaper tried to reassure readers who had been impressed by American superiority in the field of artificial intelligence.
"You don't have to worry too much, because we are working to achieve them," wrote the Global Times.
Last week a Chinese startup introduced Beijing's answer to ChatGpt: it's called "Deepseek 3" and it will guarantee results comparable to or even higher than those of the Americans at a cost of only six million dollars, compared to the hundreds of millions spent on ChatGpt. Deepseek 3 uses less sophisticated semiconductors and consumes much less power.
The Chinese company has focused a lot on the open nature of its product. This means that anyone, all over the world, can copy the code and use it for free. An attack on the ChatGpt model, whose more sophisticated applications are paid.
This story reveals how much artificial intelligence has become an area of economic, but also geopolitical, rivalry that pits the superpowers of the twenty-first century against each other.
During the first term of Donald Trump and that of Joe Biden, the United States imposed a series of technological sanctions on China, which today cannot access the most sophisticated semiconductors or American financing or technology. In the United States, Chinese companies are already part of a blacklist.
These obstacles have inevitably created problems for Beijing, but they have also pushed China to develop its own technologies. Xi Jinping considers the technological challenge an absolute priority and invests colossal sums in the search for national solutions that can reduce dependence on foreign countries. This is the Chinese equivalent of "derisking", a policy adopted by Europeans and Americans to no longer depend on China.
This rivalry applies to all technological fields, as we have seen in the case of the Chinese company Huawei. However, artificial intelligence is a particularly delicate field, because today it is at the center of the technological transformation of all sectors, including defense. The weapons of the future will be managed by artificial intelligence and are therefore strategic.
Last month Alex Karp, CEO of the American company Palantir, very active in the field of information gathering, declared that the "artificial intelligence revolution" is "American". " It is ours, the companies are American, the money is American and there is no other reality that can compete with us, not even Europe which is anemic and only thinks about regulations, let alone China or Russia. Who would ever want to operate in these countries?” asked Karp with some arrogance.
Deepseek 3 shows that China has not yet said the last word. Silicon Valley, which will re-embrace Trumpism, remains extremely powerful, but now it must face an adversary on the other side of the planet. This collision will shape our century, for better or for worse./ Bota.al
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