Government policies, generous funding and a pipeline of AI graduates have helped Chinese firms create advanced LLMs.

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, has emerged as a formidable player in the artificial intelligence landscape, particularly with its cost-efficient large language models (LLMs). Unlike expensive U.S. models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 or Google’s Gemini,

With AI, though, it’s different. The stakes are different – the impact on our society and our personal lives is different. So it helps to know a little more about how AI agents, LLMs and neural nets, are making decisions and processing what’s around them.