BEIJING-- The high-performance, low-cost expert system design released recently by Chinese start-up DeepSeek has created a wave of attention worldwide. DeepSeek-R1 appears to provide performance that rivals options from the U.S., however the business says it was developed at less than a tenth of the cost of those . Chinese innovation news portal 36Kr interviewed the business's founder, garagesale.es Liang Wenfeng, in July 2024.