🇨🇳 DeepSeek¶
Status: 🔜 Coming soon
Tier: 2 — Disruptive challenger
Overview¶
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI lab that made headlines by matching GPT-4 performance at a fraction of the training cost. Their open-weight models are popular for cost-sensitive deployments, but raise data sovereignty and geopolitical questions.
Planned Topics¶
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| What is DeepSeek? | Chinese open-source AI — the "Sputnik moment" for the AI industry |
| Model lineup | DeepSeek V3, R1 — reasoning and coding strengths |
| Cost efficiency | How they achieved GPT-4 quality at ~5% of the cost |
| Security & sovereignty concerns | Data residency, government connections, customer concerns |
| 🔨 Hands-on: Run DeepSeek locally | Download via Ollama — safe to run locally |
| Customer talking points | How to address "what about DeepSeek?" questions |