BEIJING-- The high-performance, affordable synthetic intelligence model released recently by Chinese start-up DeepSeek has developed a wave of attention around the world. DeepSeek-R1 appears to provide performance that competitors options from the U.S., grandtribunal.org however the states it was established at less than a tenth of the cost of those designs. Chinese technology news portal 36Kr spoke with the company's founder, users.atw.hu Liang Wenfeng, in July 2024.