#DeepSeekImpact OpenAI’s ChatGPT release in late 2022 caused a stir among Chinese tech companies, who rushed to create their own AI-powered chatbots.

But after the release of the first Chinese equivalent of ChatGPT, created by search engine giant Baidu (9888.HK), opens a new tab, there was widespread frustration in China over the gap in AI capabilities between U.S. and Chinese firms.

The quality and cost-effectiveness of DeepSeek’s models turned that story on its head. Two models that have been praised by Silicon Valley executives and engineers at U.S. tech companies, DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1, are on par with the most advanced models from OpenAI and Meta, the Chinese startup said.BEIJING, Jan 27 (Reuters) - The launch of its latest AI models by Chinese startup DeepSeek, which it says are as good as or better than leading models in the United States at a fraction of the cost, threatens to upset the tech world. order.

The company has attracted attention in global AI circles after writing in an article last month that it costs less than $6 million to train DeepSeek-V3