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DeepSeek’s success shows why motivation is key to AI innovation


How did DeepSeek attain such cost-savings while American companies could not? Let's dive into the technical details.

The seemingly unstoppable OpenAI and the powerful American tech giants were shocked by what we can certainly call an underdog in the area of large language models (LLMs). Given the unavailability of the best high-end hardware, it seems that DeepSeek was motivated to innovate in the area of efficiency, which was a lesser concern for larger players. Eventually, the model learned to generate both long and coherent thoughts, which is what DeepSeek calls the ‘a-ha’ moment.

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