When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded on the scene.

A new player, DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, has shaken up Silicon Valley with its cost-efficient language model, DeepSeek-R1, rivaling OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Despite US export controls on advanced AI chips,

DeepSeek's new R1 model matches or beats OpenAI's performance while being free and open-source—and it got there in a fascinating way.

With its MIT license and ultra-low costs, DeepSeek could be an appealing and cost-effective option for enterprise adoption.

Start Your Engines Unless you've been living under a rock, you're probably aware that AI is developing at a breakneck pace. Early yesterday morning, a rather gleeful post on X-formerly-Twitter announced the release of DeepSeek R1 — a Chinese "reasoning" AI model which has performed "on par" with OpenAI-o1,

DeepSeek-R1, a cost-effective LLM solution challenging Big Tech, offers open-source AI models for global adoption.