Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is fascinated by the new R1 artificial intelligence model from the Chinese company DeepSeek. He has already announced that he will use it in his new startup Gloo instead of OpenAI models. This was reported by TechCrunch.
Gelsinger noted that DeepSeek should remind the tech industry of three key lessons: lower costs drive wider adoption, ingenuity develops within constraints, and openness always has an advantage. Unlike the OpenAI and Anthropic models, the DeepSeek model is open source.
Wisdom is learning the lessons we thought we already knew. DeepSeek reminds us of three important learnings from computing history:
— Pat Gelsinger (@PGelsinger) January 27, 2025
1) Computing obeys the gas law. Making it dramatically cheaper will expand the market for it. The markets are getting it wrong, this will make AI…
Gelsinger was so impressed with R1 that he decided to restart the development of his Kallm service with a new model. Before that, the company used o1 from OpenAI.
He believes that DeepSeek will make AI so accessible that it will not just be everywhere. Good AI will be everywhere.
"I want better AI in my Oura Ring. I want better AI in my hearing aid. I want more AI in my phone. I want better AI in my embedded devices, such as voice recognition in my electric car," Helsinger says. However, not everyone shares the former Intel CEO's enthusiasm on this issue. For many, the power and cheapness of the new model resemble a "cheese in a mousetrap" - AI is getting more expensive, not cheaper.DeepSeek is suspected of providing false data on model training costs and using advanced AI processing chips, the import of which is banned in China.
"You'll never have full transparency, given that most of the work was done in China," Gelsinger replies, "but still, all indications are that their training is 10-50 times cheaper than o1's.As for privacy and censorship because it's a Chinese developer, Helsinger simply shrugs it off.
"The fact that the Chinese are reminding us of the power of open ecosystems is perhaps a little bit disconcerting for our community, the Western world," he said.