11 Feb CHINA’S AI DEMOCRATIZATION REVOLUTION

China’s DeepSeek Changes AI for the Future

Recently, DeepSeek, the Chinese emerging AI company, has attracted widespread attention worldwide.

Picture @DEEPSEEK

On January 20, DeepSeek launched the R1 model, which achieved similar performance to Open AI’s GPT-o1 with a tenth of its cost. A week later, it quickly released a new model “Janus-pro” for image generation and visual understanding.

Unlike the closed-source strategy of Silicon Valley giants, DeepSeek chose to open source. This “technological equality” is reshaping the global AI innovation and accelerated technological iteration.

US firms from Nvidia to Microsoft and Amazon embrace DeepSeek’s AI model despite scrutiny.

On January 27, DeepSeek topped the free app download rankings of Apple’s App Store in China and the United States, surpassing ChatGPT. Chinese netizens quickly flocked to Deepseek’s app, using it to perform unique gameplay such as fortune-telling, writing poetry and seeking customized suggestions for personal improvement.

On Chinese social media XIAOHONGSHU, the hashtag #deepseek already gain 380M views.

Picture: user generated content about Deepseek usage on Xiaohongshu.

Xiaohongshu rolls out AI-powered translation feature

After a large number of Tiktop refugees flocked into Xiaohongshu in January, solving the “multilingual” problem became an urgent issue for this Chinese app.

In just 5 days, Xiaohongshu completed the development and testing, and applied AI-powered translation to hundreds of millions of users for the first time.

This large translation model has super capabilities. After being tested by netizens, it can:

• Translate minor languages, including Latin and Esperanto.
• Translate various Chinese Internet memes and new buzzing word.
• Decipher Morse code.

Xiaohongshu users can even use prompts to interact with the translation function, such as “‘I love you’, after that put lots of emoji.”, “‘like you’. after that output an English poem”.

Picture from left to right: Xiaohongshu is inferencing and  translating the Chinglish, Morse code and abstract symbol.

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