With the emergence of China's DeepSeek, the dynamics of the artificial intelligence industry are changing, and discussions related to this will take place on ‘100 Minutes Debate’.
On the MBC current affairs program ‘100 Minutes Debate’ airing at 11:30 PM on the 11th, the topic of AI will be discussed.
China's DeepSeek is shaking the global artificial intelligence (AI) industry, which has been led by the United States. The recent announcement of DeepSeek's inference AI model R1, which developed AI with similar performance at a lower cost compared to American AI companies that invested massive development costs, caused significant fluctuations in global stock markets. While there are criticisms that development costs have been reduced, that it remains limited to existing AI technologies, and that there is no scientific progress, the fact that DeepSeek has opened the era of low-cost, high-performance AI cannot be denied.
A point of interest is the seismic shift in the global AI industry following the emergence of DeepSeek. According to China's "AI Ascendancy" policy, there are already over 4,000 AI companies in China. In the past decade, China has also accounted for about 70% of the world's generative AI patents. The United States is leading a large-scale government-backed AI investment project called "Stargate," and France has announced an AI investment plan worth 160 trillion won, intensifying the global competition for AI supremacy.
In the competition for leadership in AI development, how should South Korea survive? Will South Korea, which has been ahead in industries such as semiconductors and software, find opportunities in the escalating AI supremacy war, or will it face a serious crisis?
In the episode titled ‘DeepSeek: The AI War... Crisis or Opportunity?’ airing at 11:30 PM on the 11th, the current state of the South Korean AI industry will be examined, and discussions will be held on the direction we should take in the global competition for AI supremacy. Today's broadcast will feature Kim Ki-eung, head of the National AI Research Hub, Kim Seung-joo, professor at Korea University's Graduate School of Information Security, Park Tae-woong, chairman of Hanbit Media, and Kang Jeong-soo, head of the Blue Dot AI Research Center.
[Kim So-yeon, Star Today Reporter]
