BEIJING-- The high-performance, low-cost expert system model launched recently by Chinese startup DeepSeek has actually produced a wave of around the world. DeepSeek-R1 appears to offer performance that rivals alternatives from the U.S., higgledy-piggledy.xyz but the company says it was established at less than a tenth of the cost of those models. Chinese innovation news portal 36Kr interviewed the company's creator, Liang Wenfeng, kenpoguy.com in July 2024.