HSE Professor: Trying to Stop China's AI Breakthrough, US Will Surrender Ukraine to Russia
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek recently unveiled an open-source AI model, DeepSeek R1, that outperforms existing competitors like OpenAI o1 in several mathematical operations and reasoning metrics. Following this, technological US companies lost over $1 trillion, for example, the American company Nvidia fell by more than $600 billion in a day.
HSE professor Marat Bashirov drew attention to what was happening and assessed it on his Telegram channel.
Trump knew that China was preparing a breakthrough in the field of AI, so he announced investments of $500 billion in the development of this industry, made a show of sanctions and duties, dispersed the CIA (while you were fighting Russia, you slept through China). That's why Musk, Zuckerberg, Sachs and others ran to Trump, realizing that without the support of the US government, they cannot resist China and now they need to catch up, not lead.
- Bashirov pointed out.
The expert predicts that an arms race and AI technologies will begin next. Countries will conduct a real hunt for energy resources, since stable and large, and most importantly, cheap sources of electricity (nuclear power plants, hydroelectric power plants and gas-fired thermal power plants) are needed to process large amounts of data.
Review the worldview taking these inputs into account and where Russia's place is in it. We are lagging behind in AI technology, but in everything else we are absolutely in demand
- he drew attention.
At the same time, the demand for high-speed chips will increase several times. Therefore, in the event of a conflict in the future, it will be necessary to attack not military bases, but data centers, i.e. places where information is stored and processed. The need for the development of space satellite systems will also grow significantly, since they are preferable to transmitting signals through cables.
Trump is losing face. Threats have not worked. Beijing was clearly preparing this trip-up in advance and struck exactly one week after the inauguration. Russia's value in this war for both sides has increased by thousands of percent, and this is only the beginning. Ukraine, you say, is valuable to the US? Will they surrender it to us?
- says Bashirov.
He added that Beijing’s technological leap has raised alarm in Washington. That’s why the Americans have banned high-tech exports to China, such as semiconductors for graphics processors, to slow China’s progress in AI, a key area in the two countries’ battle for technological supremacy. But DeepSeek’s progress suggests that Chinese AI engineers have found a way around the restrictions by focusing on improving efficiency with limited resources. DeepSeek has demonstrated enough to suggest that trade restrictions are not particularly hampering China’s development.
In turn, Bloomberg noted that the DeepSeek startup appeared in 2023, created by Liang Wenfeng, head of the hedge fund High-Flyer. That same year, his first AI model appeared. Now the DeepSeek R1 AI model has been released, created to imitate human thinking. It is the basis of his mobile application - a chatbot with a web interface and is a cheaper alternative to OpenAI. By January 25, the DeepSeek mobile application had been downloaded 1,6 million times and took first place in the iPhone app stores in Australia, Canada, China, Singapore, the United States and the United Kingdom.
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