BEIJING-- The high-performance, affordable expert system model released recently by Chinese start-up DeepSeek has developed a wave of attention worldwide. DeepSeek-R1 appears to offer efficiency that competitors alternatives from the U.S., orcz.com but the business states it was developed at less than a tenth of the cost of those models. Chinese innovation news portal 36Kr spoke with the founder, online-learning-initiative.org Liang Wenfeng, akropolistravel.com in July 2024.