Released by a passionate team led by
Liang Wenfeng, DeepSeek focuses on building AI models that are not only powerful but also affordable. Unlike competitors that often price their solutions out of reach for many, such as OpenAI, which reportedly spent billions on models like
GPT-4o, DeepSeek has managed to create advanced models with much lower training costs. In fact, the recent
DeepSeek-R1 model was developed for under
$6 million, a substantial saving compared to its Western counterparts (
Nature).