The release of the Chinese DeepSeek-R1 large language model, with its impressive capabilities and low development cost, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) investing experienced a shakeup at the end of January with the release of DeepSeek's R1 model.

A notable example is Hubei Yangtze Memory Labs in Wuhan, where many engineers from leading Chinese chipmaker YMTC, which was added to the US Entity List in 2022, conduct trials and test samples.

The emergence of DeepSeek is being seen as the first visible challenge to costlier models such as OpenAI and Anthropic, and ...