BEIJING-- The high-performance, low-cost artificial intelligence model launched just recently by Chinese start-up DeepSeek has produced a wave of attention around the globe. DeepSeek-R1 appears to offer efficiency that competitors alternatives from the U.S., yogaasanas.science however the company states it was at less than a tenth of the cost of those models. Chinese innovation news portal 36Kr interviewed the company's founder, Liang Wenfeng, complexityzoo.net in July 2024.