Over the past one and a half weekends, the influence of DeepSeek has been steadily rising, achieving several significant advancements. The national supercomputing internet platform has officially launched DeepSeek-R1, which supports complete functionality up to 671B. Additionally, the Pingtouge's Xuantie chip has successfully adapted to the distilled models of the DeepSeek-R1 series, further expanding its application space on RISC-V architecture CPUs and edge computing platforms.
During the Spring Festival, the three major telecom operators fully integrated DeepSeek, marking a significant expansion of its application beyond the AI and internet sectors, penetrating deeper into various industries. This means that users and developers no longer need to worry about "server busy" issues when using DeepSeek, enjoying a more efficient experience.
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As the popularity of DeepSeek skyrockets, many cloud service providers are seizing the opportunity to lower prices. Tencent Cloud was the first to launch DeepSeek with internet search support, integrating its own Sogou search, providing enhanced search APIs, and supporting the integration of private knowledge bases, allowing users to consolidate their knowledge bases with just one click. Meanwhile, SenseTime and Alibaba Cloud have also responded, with SenseTime's large device platform offering 10 million tokens for free use within three months, and Alibaba Cloud providing new users with 1 million free tokens, with relatively low prices for distilled version models.
In the chip sector, major companies are accelerating their competition for market share. AMD's MI300X graphics card has tripled its application speed on DeepSeek-R1 and has launched an official Docker image. In addition to NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem, AMD's ROCm also provides users with new options. New AI inference chips such as Groq, Cerebras, and Sambanova have boosted the inference speed of DeepSeek-R1-Distill Llama-70B to 500 to 1500 tokens per second, making users hardly feel any waiting time.
In an interesting development, the ai.com domain name has been redirected to the DeepSeek official website, with rumors suggesting that DeepSeek acquired the domain for a high price. Notably, this domain was previously owned by ChatGPT and xAI, and DeepSeek's brand image will be further enhanced in the future.
