BEIJING-- The high-performance, low-cost artificial intelligence design released just recently by Chinese start-up DeepSeek has actually created a wave of attention around the world. DeepSeek-R1 appears to provide efficiency that rivals alternatives from the U.S., but the company states it was established at less than a tenth of the cost of those models. Chinese technology 36Kr talked to the company's creator, Liang Wenfeng, visualchemy.gallery in July 2024.