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Ben Turner

Chinese researchers just built an open-source rival to ChatGPT in 2 months. Silicon Valley is freaked out.

The DeepSeek logo displayed on a smartphone screen.

China has released a cheap, open-source rival to OpenAI's ChatGPT, and it has some scientists excited and Silicon Valley worried.

DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) lab behind the innovation, unveiled its free large language model (LLM) DeepSeek-V3 in late December 2024 and claims it was built in two months for just $5.58 million — a fraction of the time and cost required by its Silicon Valley competitors.

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