Professor Lee Ju-hyung of the Department of AI and Software at Gachon University, who attended the emergency joint forum on 'DeepSeek Waves and Future Prospects' jointly hosted by the Federation of Korean Science and Technology Societies (KOFST), the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, and the National Life Science Advisory Group on the 17th, said, "There are great concerns about DeepCheek, but there are also many positive outlooks."
Earlier, on the 20th of last month, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled a commercial AI called 'DeepSeek-R1' (hereinafter referred to as R1), which it said was created at about 17 times cheaper than the US OpenAI's Chat GPT-4. Unlike existing IT companies that keep their AI learning code secret, it became an even bigger topic of conversation by disclosing a paper detailing the learning process in open source format.
Jaesik Choi, CEO of domestic AI prediction solution specialist 'INEEJI', also said, "The emergence of DeepSeek has brought home the fact that there is still no monopoly in the AI market, which was thought to be completely monopolized by the United States, and that many latecomers will be mass-produced with the release of DeepSeek's code," adding, "It is an opportunity for Korean companies."
