{"id":77631,"date":"2025-01-29T03:49:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T08:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/?p=77631"},"modified":"2025-01-28T08:18:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:18:36","slug":"what-is-deepseek-the-chinese-ai-startup-that-shook-the-tech-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/what-is-deepseek-the-chinese-ai-startup-that-shook-the-tech-world\/","title":{"rendered":"What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that shook the tech world?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By\u00a0David Goldman<\/span><\/a> –\u00a0The new AI model was developed by DeepSeek, a startup that was born just a year ago and has somehow managed a breakthrough that famed tech investor Marc Andreessen has called \u201cAI\u2019s Sputnik moment<\/a>\u201d: R1 can nearly match the capabilities of its far more famous rivals, including OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4, Meta\u2019s Llama and Google\u2019s Gemini \u2014 but at a fraction of the cost.<\/p>\n

The company said it had spent just $5.6 million powering its base AI model, compared with the hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars US companies spend on their AI technologies. That\u2019s even more shocking when considering that the United States has worked for years to\u00a0restrict the supply of high-power AI chips to China<\/a>, citing national security concerns. That means DeepSeek was supposedly able to achieve its low-cost model on relatively under-powered AI chips.<\/p>\n

The company, founded in late 2023 by Chinese hedge fund manager Liang Wenfeng, is one of scores of startups that have popped up in recent years\u00a0seeking big investment to ride the massive AI wave that has taken the tech industry to new heights.<\/p>\n

Liang has become the Sam Altman of China \u2014 an evangelist for AI technology and investment in new research. His hedge fund, High-Flyer, focuses on AI development.\u00a0\u00a0Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A surprisingly efficient and powerful Chinese AI model has taken the technology industry by storm. It\u2019s called DeepSeek R1, and it\u2019s rattling nerves on Wall Street.<\/p>\n Continue reading →<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that shook the tech world?","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[638,640,1302],"tags":[639,641,945],"class_list":["post-77631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-artificial-intelligence-ai","category-ccatbot","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence-2","tag-chatbot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ai-generated-8327372_1280.png","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77633,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77631\/revisions\/77633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}