A Chinese computer nerd is stunning tech experts with a bargain price AI tool that beats the world's top players on several benchmarks.
Liang Wenfeng's system, called DeepSeek-V3, has powers of "reasoning" that match or beat those of the equivalent devices by the world's top tech companies, at a better cost, tests show.
"DeepSeek-V3 has emerged as the strongest open-source model currently available and achieves performance comparable to leading closed-source models," said Supreeth Koundinya, a tech analyst in India.
'BRILLIANT YOUNG MINDS'
While Liang and his colleagues spent more than a billion yuan over recent years to research and develop AI systems, the ground-breaking new model, DeepSeek V3 LLM, was developed in two months with a budget of just US$5,580,000, the cost of a single nice apartment in Monaco or Hong Kong.
In contrast, Meta's minimum AI budget for the financial year is a staggering US$38,000,000,000.