NewsPronto

 
The Times


.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

Why building big AIs costs billions – and how Chinese startup DeepSeek dramatically changed the calculus

  • Written by Ambuj Tewari, Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan
imageDeepSeek burst on the scene – and may be bursting some bubbles.AP Photo/Andy Wong

State-of-the-art artificial intelligence systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude have captured the public imagination by producing fluent text in multiple languages in response to user prompts. Those companies have...

Read more: Why building big AIs costs billions – and how Chinese startup DeepSeek dramatically changed the...

More Articles ...

  1. Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
  2. Rest, reorientation and hope – the pillars of 2025’s Catholic Jubilee year
  3. President Carter had to balance employers’ demands for foreign workers with pressure to restrict immigration – and so does Trump
  4. Skin phantoms help researchers improve wearable devices without people wearing them
  5. Almost half of evicted women and families in metro Detroit say they were illegally pushed out of their homes
  6. ‘Aliens’ and ‘animals’ – language of hate used by Trump and others can be part of a violent design
  7. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination signals a new era of anti-intellectualism in American politics
  8. What’s behind Trump’s flurry of executive action: 4 essential reads on autocrats and authoritarianism
  9. Commerce oversees everything from weather and salmon to trade and census − here are 3 challenges awaiting new secretary
  10. ¿Trump va en serio con cambiar el nombre del Golfo de México al ‘Golfo de América’? Esto explica una geógrafa
  11. Engineering the social: Students in this course use systems thinking to help solve human rights, disease and homelessness
  12. Medical research depends on government money – even a day’s delay in the intricate funding process throws science off-kilter
  13. In asking Trump to show mercy, Bishop Budde continues a long tradition of Christian leaders ‘speaking truth to power’
  14. St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull just went on tour − here’s what the medieval saint himself would have said about its veneration
  15. Disaster evacuations can take much longer than people expect − computer simulations could help save lives and avoid chaos
  16. Global wildlife trade is an enormous market – a look at the billions of animals the US imports from nearly 30,000 species
  17. Global wildlife trade is an enormous market – the US imports billions of animals from nearly 30,000 species
  18. Donors are down, but dollars are up – how US charitable giving is changing
  19. Canada and Greenland aren’t likely to join the US anytime soon – but ‘GrAmeriCa’ is a revealing thought experiment
  20. Getting mail to your door is just one part of what the postmaster general does
  21. Nutrition advice is rife with misinformation − a medical education specialist explains how to tell valid health information from pseudoscience
  22. Happiness in poorer countries does not follow the typical U-shaped curve − people are often happiest in middle age
  23. Federal threats against local officials who don’t cooperate with immigration orders could be unconstitutional − Justice Antonin Scalia ruled against similar plans
  24. I study democracy worldwide − here’s how Texas is eroding human rights, free expression and civil liberties
  25. Why does it hurt when you get a scrape? A neuroscientist explains the science of pain
  26. How does raw water compare to tap water? A microbiologist explains why the risks outweigh the benefits
  27. Why government can’t make America ‘healthier’ by micromanaging groceries purchased with SNAP benefits
  28. Why Trump’s tariffs can’t solve America’s fentanyl crisis
  29. Assad’s fall opens window for Syrian refugees to head home − but for many, it won’t be an easy decision
  30. ‘Sorry, I didn’t get that’: AI misunderstands some people’s words more than others
  31. Norovirus, aka the winter vomiting bug, is on the rise – an infectious disease expert explains the best ways to stay safe
  32. Understanding paranormal beliefs and conspiracy theories isn’t just about misinformation – this course unpacks the history
  33. College course teaches Philly students to appreciate beer − whether they’re tailgating or fine dining
  34. Can Trump just order new names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico? A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map
  35. Trump inherits the Guantánamo prison, complete with 4 ‘forever prisoners’
  36. Red light therapy shows promise for pain relief, inflammation and skin conditions – but other claims might be hyped
  37. Newly discovered photos of Nazi deportations show Jewish victims as they were last seen alive
  38. Reproductive health care faces legal and surveillance challenges post-Roe – new research offers guidance
  39. One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
  40. US Supreme Court is unabashedly liberal − in its writing style
  41. Seizure of Sally Mann’s photographs in Texas revives old debates about obscenity and freedom of expression
  42. Microgravity in space may cause cancer − but on Earth, mimicking weightlessness could help researchers develop treatments
  43. The technology that runs Congress lags so far behind the modern world that its flag-tracking system just caught up to 2017-era Pizza Hut
  44. President Trump promises to make government efficient − and he’ll run into the same roadblocks as Presidents Taft, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush, among others
  45. Navigating deepfakes and synthetic media: This course helps students demystify artificial intelligence technologies
  46. As Syria ponders a democratic future: 5 lessons from the Arab Spring
  47. Harvard expands its definition of antisemitism – when does criticism of Israel cross a line?
  48. Health and Human Services secretary influences every aspect of America’s health
  49. Mark Zuckerberg thinks workplaces need to ‘man up’ − here’s why that’s bad for all employees, no matter their gender
  50. 10 years after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France, conversations about free speech are still too black and white