A Chinese AI company that rivals ChatGPT, is gaining attention in Silicon Valley with its rapid rise, nearly outperforming leading American AI companies like OpenAI and Meta.
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI startup that develops open-source large language models (LLMs), according to the company's website.
The company unveiled R1, a specialized model designed for complex problem-solving, on Jan. 20, which "zoomed to the global top 10 in performance," and was built far more rapidly, with fewer, less powerful AI chips, at a much lower cost than other U.S. models, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The announcement of the latest version of the app happened on President Donald Trump's Inauguration Day as another Chinese-owned social media app, TikTok, was making headlines about whether it would be banned in the U.S. [More...]
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Techworld going crazy for DeepSeek:
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