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,

Deepseek collects similar data to American-based AI models, but Chinese laws could make that data more accessible to the government.