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FOUND: Deepseek breakthrough raises ai energy questions - You Need To See This

DeepSeek is raising questions about how much energy AI needs (Credit: AFP)

Having shattered assumptions in the tech sector and beyond about the cost of artificial intelligence, Chinese startup DeepSeek's new chatbot is now roiling another industry: energy companies.

The firm says it developed its open-source R1 model using around 2,000 Nvidia chips, just a fraction of the computing power generally thought necessary to train similar programmes.

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