{"id":20779,"date":"2025-01-30T12:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/durov-identifies-key-factors-behind-deepseeks-success\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T12:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:22:14","slug":"durov-identifies-key-factors-behind-deepseeks-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/durov-identifies-key-factors-behind-deepseeks-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Durov Identifies Key Factors Behind DeepSeek&#8217;s Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a message celebrating the Chinese New Year, Telegram founder Pavel Durov highlighted the success of the much-discussed AI model DeepSeek and identified the reasons for this breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?22\" data-telegram-post=\"durov\/394\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cChina&#8217;s progress in algorithm efficiency did not arise out of nowhere. Chinese students have long outperformed others in mathematics and programming at international olympiads,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to him, the Chinese education system surpasses the Western one. It encourages fierce competition among students, a principle \u201cborrowed from the highly effective Soviet model.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In most Western schools, public announcement of grades and student rankings is prohibited to prevent pressure and ridicule. Such measures demotivate the best students, Durov believes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cVictory and defeat are two sides of the same coin. Eliminate the losers, and you eliminate the winners,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As a result, many gifted children find competitive games more engaging than studies, as they can see each player&#8217;s ranking there.<\/p>\n<p>Praising students regardless of performance may seem commendable, but reality will shatter this illusion after school ends.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cAI benchmarks demonstrating DeepSeek&#8217;s superiority are one such public ranking, and they are becoming more numerous. If the US secondary education system does not undergo radical reform, China&#8217;s growing dominance in technology seems inevitable,\u201d Durov concluded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, OpenAI head Sam Altman described the DeepSeek-R1 AI model as \u201cimpressive,\u201d considering its capabilities for its price.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the startup was suspected of data theft from the developer of ChatGPT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a message celebrating the Chinese New Year, Telegram founder Pavel Durov highlighted the success of the much-discussed AI model DeepSeek and identified the reasons for this breakthrough. \u201cChina&#8217;s progress in algorithm efficiency did not arise out of nowhere. Chinese students have long outperformed others in mathematics and programming at international olympiads,\u201d he noted. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1743,1423],"class_list":["post-20779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-deepseek","tag-pavel-durov"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"41","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}