DeepSeek: Geopolitical, Technological & a Layman’s view of big AI onset

Before we deeply seek (pun intended) to understand all the buzz around Deepseek, let us first try to get to the basics and answer the first question that popped up in your head – What exactly is Deepseek? It is a Chinese AI company that has recently created ripples in the AI industry with the development of its Large Language model to rival ChatGPT - Deepseek-R1.

As of a few days ago, Deepseek was the most downloaded iOS app in the US. It has also overtaken the likes of ChatGPT and Google Gemini to become the most downloaded iOS app in India too.

The most popular LLM that we know as of today is ChatGPT. There are others like Meta’s Llama & Google Gemini. An LLM, short for Large Language Model, is a type of Artificial intelligence that understands and generates human-like text. Mostly it is used for answering questions in a conversational structure, writing & editing, summarizing, coding, generating creative content like ideas, poems etc.