Liang Wenfeng, the 40-year-old founder of DeepSeek, trained as an engineer and then launched a hedge fund. Now he’s enjoying sudden success with his AI chatbot.
The DeepSeek chatbot, known as R1, responds to user queries just like its U.S.-based counterparts. Early testing released by DeepSeek suggests that its quality rivals that of other AI products, while the company says it costs less and uses far fewer specialized chips than do its competitors.
As a Chinese firm, DeepSeek is required to follow China's strict censorship laws and regulations that ensure AI conforms to "core socialist values," the news agency AFP reported. A DeepSeek answer admitted it is designed to respond in a way that reflects Beijing's line.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's chatbot scored a mere 17% accuracy in NewsGuard's audit, ranking it 10th out of 11 in performance against Western competitors. Highlighting technology gaps, the chatbot repeated false claims 30% of the time,
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek said on Monday that its new, popular app was hit with a cyber-attack, forcing the company to temporarily limit registrations. The attack came after the
The S&P500 and the Nasdaq Composite declined as investors questioned America's AI dominance after DeepSeek launched its free AI chatbot.
The emergence of China-based AI app DeepSeek sent shares plummeting on Monday for many U.S. tech giants, including chipmaker Nvidia and AI-backer Microsoft.
DeepSeek has reportedly disappeared from Italy's Apple App Store and Google Play Store, with the disappearance starting on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. The block came a day after the country's data watchdog, the Garante, filed a privacy complaint asking for clarification on how the ChatGPT rival handles users' personal data.
China just threw a curveball into the tough Artificial Intelligence (AI) race as DeepSeek’s chatbot app just skyrocketed to the number 1 spot on both the
Google and Apple requested stricter filters for the Character.ai app for being inappropriate for teens. In recent years, users have been complaining about increasingly strong cens