When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded on the scene.

A Chinese artificial intelligence lab shook up Silicon Valley this week, after its large language model outperformed American AI leaders, turning the Chinese firm into a hero defying American attempts to stop China's high-tech ambitions.

A new player, DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, has shaken up Silicon Valley with its cost-efficient language model, DeepSeek-R1, rivaling OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Despite US export controls on advanced AI chips,

Barrett Woodside, co-founder of the San Francisco AI hardware company Positron, said he and his colleagues have been abuzz about DeepSeek.

With its MIT license and ultra-low costs, DeepSeek could be an appealing and cost-effective option for enterprise adoption.