DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company that has developed DeepSeek-V2, a large language model (LLM) positioned as a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT. It has gained significant attention for its cost efficiency, rapid growth, and competitive performance in AI-driven tasks like text and code generation.

DeepSeek became the most downloaded free app in the U.S. App Store, surpassing major social networks and marketplaces. Its AI model claims to be significantly cheaper than OpenAI’s offerings, with a cost of $0.55 per million tokens compared to ChatGPT’s $15 per million tokens. The company also emphasizes reinforcement learning techniques to enhance its model’s performance with minimal human supervision.

DeepSeek’s rise has sparked discussions about the future of AI development, as it demonstrates that powerful models can be built with lower computing costs and faster training cycles.