but that wouldn’t be possible without social media.

 

 

 

 

Read the article and decide if the sentences below are true or false:

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/callumbooth/2025/01/27/deepseek-is-breaking-the-internet/

 

1. The release of DeepSeek R1 has had a positive effect on the stock prices of AI-related companies.

2. Social media has played a significant role in shaping public perception of DeepSeek and its impact on the tech industry.

3. The author believes that the reaction to DeepSeek R1 is solely based on financial concerns.

4. DeepSeek R1 is considered to be a more affordable alternative to existing AI models.

5. The text suggests that brand anthropomorphism has no influence on how companies are perceived during downturns.

6. The online discourse surrounding DeepSeek includes a mix of humour and serious concerns about AI safety.

7. The author claims that social media is ineffective in conveying complex information about technological advancements.

 

 

Key: 1F; 2T; 3F; 4T; 5F; 6T;7F

 

Glossary

 

• in full swing – in full operation, at the highest level of activity
• to have a field day – to get a lot of pleasure and enjoyment from doing something —used especially to describe getting enjoyment from criticizing someone, making fun of someone, etc.
• aflame – in a state of intense emotion
• jape /dʒeɪp/- an activity done to make someone laugh or to trick someone
• to go haywire – to break down or cease to function properly
• alluring – very attractive or tempting
• array – a large group of things or people, especially one that is attractive or causes admiration or has been positioned in a particular way
• hubris /ˈhjuːbrɪs/ – pride or arrogance
• schadenfreude – satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune
• to rectify – to remedy, to set right
• gleeful – full of glee (delight); merry
• versed – experienced; practiced; skilled; learned
• conduit –  a means of transmitting or distributing

 

 

Practice makes perfect

Fill in the gaps in the article extract with the words in bold below:

 

fraction              impacted           impacted           notion                legitimacy

resources           undisputed        flung          driving engine           outperform

 

 

The artificial intelligence industry was 1. …………. into chaos recently following the release of DeepSeek’s cheap but powerful new models, named V3 and R1. DeepSeek’s models have been found to match, or even 2. ………….. , the performance of OpenAI’s flagship models, but were built for a 3. …………… of the resources used by its larger competitors. The release has already had an effect on the tech industry—and some big names in AI are questioning its 4………………. . 

DeepSeek, which was founded and funded by Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, wrote in research papers that its V3 model was trained with just 2,048 Nvidia H800 GPUs, a less-advanced series of chips designed specifically for sale in China. The training took 2.78 million GPU hours (the amount of time a GPU cluster spends processing tasks) and cost just under $5.6 million. For comparison, Meta trained its Llama 3 series of models with two clusters, each containing 24,000 GPUs, over a period of 39.3 million GPU hours. In short, DeepSeek says it’s producing big results with a small amount of 5. …………. .

DeepSeek’s arrival has upended a largely agreed-upon 6. …………. that in order to build advanced AI models, more and more GPUs are needed. This assumption is the 7. …………….. behind Nvidia’s success as the 8. …………… top provider of GPUs. If high-level models can be built with just a few thousand GPUs and a few million dollars, the need for GPUs could decrease drastically. This has already 9. ………….. Nvidia’s stock, which fell from $142 to $124 when the stock market opened on Monday. By end of trading on Tuesday, the stock had slightly recovered, and was trading just under $129. (…)

In order to read the whole article/check your answers, go to:  https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/ai-leaders-in-the-u-s-react-to-deepseek-calling-it-impressive-but-staying-skeptical

 

 

 

Key: 1. flung; 2. outperform; 3. fraction; 4. legitimacy; 5. resources; 6. notion; 7. driving engine; 8. undisputed; 9. impacted

 

Match the words in bold to their definitions below:

 

1. DeepSeek’s arrival has upended a largely agreed-upon notion that in order to build advanced AI models, more and more GPUs are needed.

2. Now, AI providers are scrambling to adjust to a post-DeepSeek world.

3. (…) other AI companies, and the entrepreneurs behind them, have taken to social media to give their take on the situation and what it means for the AI industry at large.

4. The project’s financial backers have already committed $100 billion to the construction of AI data centers across the United States.

5. Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei (…) raised his own concerns that DeepSeek has access to more resources than they’re letting on, suggesting that smuggling tens of thousands of advanced GPUs into China “is very possible.” 

6. Another DeepSeek skeptic? Elon Musk, who responded to a video on X featuring Wang’s allegations that DeepSeek is lying about its resources with one word: “Obviously.” 

 

a) opinion about something

b) accusations

c) (here) rushing, striving; working diligently

d) allowing (something, such as a secret) to be known; revealing

e) affected; upset drastically

f) invested; dedicated

 

 

Key: 1e; 2c; 3a); 4f); 5d); 6b)

Watch and revise!

 

DeepSeek

Breaking the Internet and AI Minds!

 

https://www.cloud.worldwideschool.pl/index.php/s/4tX4HmjM84SRbaq

 

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