China’s DeepSeek has built a top-tier artificial intelligence model while spending far less than its American rivals. Their total compute cost? A mere $6 million, almost a tenth of what Meta is rumored to have spent. The secret? A mix of smart engineering, a clever neural network design, and some good old-fashioned mathematical efficiency. The industry is taking note, the question is—who will be the next to follow suit? Back to Mail Online home. Back to the page you came from.\”DeepSeek\” is a Chinese start-up that developed the \”mixture of experts\” AI system. Traditional AI models try to learn everything in one giant neural network. That’s like stuffing all knowledge into a single brain—inefficient and power-hungry. The system split the system into specialized mini-networks. One for poetry, one for coding, another for biology, and so on. Each \”expert\” focused on its domain, while a \”generalist\” network acted as a bridge, coordinating them. Think of it like a newsroom: specialist reporters cover specific beats, while an editor connects the dots.
