Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has quickly gained international attention after its chatbot app became the most downloaded on both the Apple App Store and Google Play. Backed by High-Flyer Capital Management, DeepSeek’s innovative AI models, such as DeepSeek-V3 and the reasoning-focused R1, offer competitive performance at significantly lower costs than U.S. alternatives like OpenAI’s GPT-4o.

DeepSeek’s ability to train advanced models using older Nvidia chips and compute-efficient methods has disrupted the AI industry, forcing competitors to lower prices and raising concerns about the U.S.’s dominance in AI. However, DeepSeek operates under Chinese regulations, censoring politically sensitive topics like Tiananmen Square and Taiwan in its chatbot app.

With its models available as open-source (MIT license) and accessible via platforms like Hugging Face, DeepSeek is reshaping the AI landscape, sparking debates over cost efficiency, geopolitical influence, and the future of AI innovation.

Source: TechCrunch

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