BEIJING-- The high-performance, affordable synthetic intelligence design launched recently by Chinese startup DeepSeek has developed a wave of attention worldwide. DeepSeek-R1 appears to use efficiency that competitors alternatives from the U.S., fishtanklive.wiki but the company says it was developed at less than a tenth of the expense of those . Chinese innovation news portal 36Kr talked to the company's founder, akropolistravel.com Liang Wenfeng, in July 2024.