Several major US and China-based cloud providers have made DeepSeek's AI models available on their cloud computing platforms.
Following Chinese startup DeepSeek's disruptive claim that its R1 chatbot was trained for a rough cost of $5.6 million and using Nvidia's A100 and H800 GPUs - chips that are far less powerful than those used by US AI companies - several cloud providers have brought the AI startup's models to their cloud services.
Questions have been raised about the validity of DeepSeek's claims, with OpenAI and Microsoft exploring if DeepSeek used OpenAI’s API to integrate OpenAI’s AI models into DeepSeek’s own models, and US officials reportedly investigating whether the company actually acquired more powerful Nvidia GPUs than it said via third party companies in other countries.
Regardless, the sudden popularity of DeepSeek's models has led to the likes of Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Nvidia bringing DeepSeek to their cloud platforms, alongside Chinese cloud providers Huawei, Tencent, and Alibaba Cloud.
AWS CEO Matt Garman said in a LinkedIn post last week: "DeepSeek R1 is the latest foundation model to capture the imagination of the industry. We’ve always been focused on making it easy to get started with emerging and popular models right away, and we’re giving customers a lot of ways to test out DeepSeek AI ... We’ve always believed that no single model is right for every use case, and customers can expect all kinds of new options to emerge in the future."
Smaller cloud providers are also following suit, with Indian sovereign cloud provider AceCloud introducing DeepSeek models to its platform this week.
Despite many embracing DeepSeek's technology and aiming to capitalize on the peak in interest, hundreds of companies have banned DeepSeek, along with several countries and governments.
Italy has conducted a country-wide ban on the company, while Taiwan has ruled that government agencies cannot use DeepSeek's AI, as has the US Congress, the US Navy, the Pentagon, NASA, and the state of Texas.
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