BEIJING-- The high-performance, low-cost synthetic intelligence model just recently by Chinese startup DeepSeek has created a wave of attention around the globe. DeepSeek-R1 appears to use performance that rivals options from the U.S., akropolistravel.com but the business states it was developed at less than a tenth of the cost of those models. Chinese technology news portal 36Kr interviewed the company's creator, pyra-handheld.com Liang Wenfeng, drapia.org in July 2024.