Video: How DeepSeek And Emerging AI Models Could Impact The IT Channel

a new AI player entered the game this week that may or may not have ripped off open AI while recent reports alleg Chinese startup deep seek used outputs from open AI models to train its own channel Insider wanted to know what emerging AI models overall mean for the industry let's dig into it what deep seek is done which I think is absolutely compelling is how fast they've caught the frontier the tech world was rattled on Monday January 27th 2025 in the wake of reports deep seeks latest AI models outperform competing open- Source models and are on par with leading closed Source models the Shocker was that deep seek said these models required far less money fewer and substandard GPU chips and a shorter training period the models from open Ai and anthropic upsetting everything Tech leaders thought they knew about creating resource hungry AI models following the news chipmaker nvidia's stock prices plummeted about 177% in a day as investors pondered if this could signal the end of the chip boom it's going to be a major shift in rethinking the path that we were going down this changes the the mindset of what you need for an AI in building and in doing so those bigger companies need to Pivot right and they will pivot because they've got the Mind share the thought process and the people to do it additionally deep seeks AI assistant surpassed chat GPT as the number one most popular free app on the Apple App Store in the US but beyond the initial shock and awe what does any of this mean for IT solutions and services providers and their customers the businesses will have some sort of shift and posture because where everybody took what was available at the time they're starting to learn difference between large language models they're starting to learn how impactful data is to AI has it affected the channel yet and the answer is not really we're so far to high in the curve uh we have not had a chance to catch up the Professional Services model or customer success model or our past Service delivery models um have not been if you will adopted by AI models right like there hasn't we have not identified the gaps that are necessary to be filled but experts say now is the time for channnel providers to learn about AI models and what they can be applied to through testing in closed environments and peer conversations as for how deep seeks new AI models could impact the future of AI Innovation it's possible competitors could learn from the startup's open- source framework so you can actually test their models and apis out there and see what they've done is there opportunity of looking at what they did and using it to accelerate your space absolutely yes even if deep seek isn't the AI upset we thought it was the race to the top of the AI model mountain is still very much ongoing I'm Katie boso for more it channel news and Trends check out channel insider.com

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