DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence firm from China, focuses on developing open-source large language models. Established recently by Liang Wenfeng, the company has made waves in the AI industry for its DeepSeek-R1 model. Impressively, DeepSeek claims to produce AI comparable to leading models like GPT-4 at a fraction of the cost and computing power. This breakthrough is particularly noteworthy given the challenges faced for Nvidia processors, demonstrating DeepSeek's technological prowess in the global AI race.
