DeepSeek is a company based in Hangzhou, China, that has recently released an AI model that has taken the tech world by storm. Their model,
R1, has been praised for matching or even surpassing the capabilities of popular models developed by OpenAI, all while operating at a fraction of the cost. The launch of DeepSeek's non-censored model has been described by venture capitalist
Marc Andreessen as “AI’s Sputnik moment.” You can read more about their emergence and technology
here.