The China-US battle is intensifying in the world of AI

Open AI, an American company that launched ChatGPT in 2022, caused a stir around the world. After that, the leading companies continued to dominate the AI ​​market. New versions of artificial intelligence, including Google's Gemini, Mater, Lama, Microsoft's Copilot, Anthropic, Cloud, and others, have continuously strengthened the position of the United States. Even after becoming president for the second time, Donald Trump announced an investment of $500 billion in AI. Large companies like Open AI, Oracle, and SoftBank announced their participation.

At the same time, the United States continued to take steps one after another to keep China away from advanced AI technology, in addition to sharpening its own innovations. Former President Joe Biden banned the sale of AI chips to China in October 2022. Even before his departure, Joe Biden expanded the scope of that ban. For three years, US companies, including Nvidia, were banned from exporting the sophisticated chips needed to build AI to China. Because the US considered such technology to be a threat to its national security. But in the end, China largely ignored the US challenge. On January 20, the Chinese company DeepSec launched a specialized AI model, DeepSec R1. To everyone's surprise, DeepSec became the highest-rated application on the Apple Store in the United States, surpassing ChatGP within a week. DeepSec's R1 and V3, which came on the market in December 2024, are both on par with Western models like ChatGP and Gemini, and in some cases, they are performing better. Alexander Wang, CEO of Scale AI, told CNBC, "We have tested and found that DeepSec's performance is equivalent to leading US AI models." Two DeepSec models are in the top 11 in the AI ​​ranking of the University of California Chatbot Arena. They are ahead of Elon Musk's Gruk and Anthropic's Claude. According to DeepSec, their new model cost only $5.7 million to train. Meanwhile, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has claimed that the top AI models in the United States cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars to develop. Trump's close advisor and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has called DeepSec, a low-cost AI that uses a low-end chip, one of the most groundbreaking innovations he has seen. He also called DeepSec's emergence the 'Sputnik moment of the AI ​​era'. Both the app and web versions of DeepSec are free to users. Like ChatGPT, it has no limits on usage. DeepSec's latest model is open source; That is, the codes used in it are open to everyone. Barrett Woodside, co-founder of the US AI hardware company Position, said that the matter is really extraordinary. He told the Wall Street Journal that he and his colleagues have been expressing their fascination with DeepSec. US President Donald Trump also reacted quickly to this. He said, "DeepSec should be seen as a warning sign for our industry. We have to be more focused to win this competition." He expressed hope that US companies will now be able to get the same results at a lower cost without spending billions of dollars on the path shown by DeepSec. Meanwhile, when the discussion about DeepSec was at its peak, the Chinese technology company Alibaba released a new version of its AI artificial intelligence model Kuen. The company claims that this version is more powerful than ChatGPT and the much-discussed Chinese AI Kuen. Alibaba unveiled Kuen's Max model on the first day of the Chinese New Year. As a result, it is seen that not only Western AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini, but also DeepSec has become a big challenge for Chinese competitors in this sector. Needless to say, this is not very pleasant for the United States. Their research paper indicates that Chinese firms are collecting the required amount of chips or have the ability to overcome them if they are less in number. Analysts say that the United States has taken one step after another to prevent China's rise in artificial intelligence, but it has not been successful. China has indeed created a strong position in the competitive market. As a result, there is no doubt that the US-China battle in the AI ​​market will intensify in the coming days. Because along with US companies, Chinese companies have also already started competing to bring more powerful new AI models. Since the era of computers is no longer here, the era is now AI, Artificial Intelligence's