The Chinese AI lab DeepSeek introduced a new artificial intelligence tool that revolutionizes the chatbot app development. Recently it has become the most popular app in Apple App Store and Play Store charts, and it’s a topic of discussion between technology enthusiasts.
DeepSeek chatbot AI models train using computing efficient techniques, and that’s why it can compete directly with OpenAI and similar environments. If you still don’t know what DeepSeek is about, this is the article you need to read.
The origins of DeepSeek chatbot
The Chinese quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer Capital Management backs DeepSeek chatbot and it uses the AI to inform trading decisions. Liang Wenfeng co-founded High-Flyer Capital Management in 2015 and develops and deploys AI algorithms all around the world. In 2023 DeepSeek lab focused all its efforts in AI research tools for financial business.
From the beginning, DeepSeek uses proprietary data center clusters for AI model training. But being a Chinese company has forced USA to limit DeepSeek presence in different occidental countries. The exports ban on hardware affects DeepSeek as they are forced to use Nvidia H800 chips instead of the more powerful H100 that U.S. companies can use.
A young staff for DeekSeek chatbot
One of the key to understand DeepSeek chatbot app dynamics is the age of the team. The company aggressively recruits AI researchers from the most important Chinese universities. It also hires people with no technology background whatsoever, to help its tech understanding a wide range of subjects related to technology.
DeepSeek strong models
The first set of AI models from DeepSeek was Coder, LLM and Chat. They arrived in November 2023 and they didn’t make quite a difference. However, the DeepSeek V2 models helped the Chinese to win a spot in the headlines.
DeepSeek V2 is a general purpose text and image analyzing system. It has also influenced other companies to start using AI engines like Alibab or ByteDance. To keep improving DeepSeek chatbot and other tools, the V3 arrived in December 2024.
According to the benchmark testing data, DeepSeek V3 is one of the most powerful tools now. It has a strong performance surpassing Llama from Meta or GPT-4o from OpenAI, for example. Another great surprise is DeepSeek R1 reasoning model. It appeared on January 2025 and it can check facts and give deeply thought answers and problem solutions.
The disruption approach of DeepSeek
The Chinese approach to AI is more competitive in terms of money. They offer services below market value and they offer a great system for little money. The only risk is that in the future the directors can change and the policies change.
DeepSeek is not open source. It’s available for free and under permissive licenses that allow commercial use, for example. The new AI model can be found on Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry, showing the great interest in a deeply understanding technology for AI activities.