China’s AI Underdog Is Shaking Up the Game
Deepseek, a rising Chinese AI startup, just made waves by beating OpenAI’s O1 model on reasoning tests with its R1 model. Led by Liang Wenfeng and backed by High-Flyer, they’re all about research, not profits. Their secret? Cutting-edge tech like Multi-Head Latent Attention and Sparse Mixture-of-Experts. By slashing API prices and focusing on AGI, they’re sparking competition and nurturing local talent in China’s growing AI market.