Three things to know as the dust settles from DeepSeek

Within AI, though, what impact is DeepSeek likely to have in the longer term? Here are three seeds DeepSeek has planted that will grow even as the initial hype fades. First, it's forcing a debate about how much energy AI models should be allowed to use up in pursuit of better answers. You may have heard (including from me) that DeepSeek is energy efficient. That's true for its training phase, but for inference, which is when you actually ask the model something and it produces an answer, it's complicated.