BEIJING-- The high-performance, affordable expert system model released just recently by Chinese startup DeepSeek has created a wave of attention all over the world. DeepSeek-R1 appears to use performance that competitors alternatives from the U.S., however the business states it was developed at less than a tenth of the cost of those designs. news portal 36Kr interviewed the business's founder, Liang Wenfeng, pipewiki.org in July 2024.