DeepSeek’s Meteoric Rise and The International War For AI Supremacy
TL;DR DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, has rapidly ascended in the tech world with its cost-effective and efficient AI models helping it surge past ChatGPT in Jan 2025 to become the #1 downloaded free app in Apple's App Store. Supposedly developed with a meager budget of just $6 million, DeepSeek's R1 model rivals industry giants like OpenAI's ChatGPT, which had significantly higher development costs (we are guessing in the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars range). However, DeepSeek is now under scrutiny for allegedly using OpenAI's technology without permission, raising concerns about intellectual property theft and national security. The U.S. Navy has restricted its personnel from using DeepSeek's app due to security fears, and investigations are ongoing. DeepSeek's Meteoric Rise In the ever-evolving tech landscape, few stories have been as electrifying as DeepSeek's. […]
