What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that shook the tech world?

This is a great primer on DeepSeek, if you’ve missed the news.

The company represents an interesting development in the global AI landscape, offering a principled and transparent approach to advanced AI model creation.
What’s really cool about DeepSeek is their commitment to open-source development. They believe in democratizing AI to accelerate innovation worldwide.

DeepSeek’s success story is pretty unique. Instead of hiring experienced engineers, they tapped into fresh talent - mostly recent PhD graduates from China’s top universities. This high-investment, low-research approach seems to have paid off big time!

You can try it at

Check out their (other?) website here
https://www.deepseek.com/

And their GitHub and Hugging Space repos:

yes, I have heard the news of DeepSeek @jonasrosland

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