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In this episode of The Innovation Frontier, we tell the story of DeepSeek, a company that went from an internal hedge-fund research lab to a global flashpoint in artificial intelligence.

DeepSeek began inside a quant hedge fund experimenting with GPUs and trading models, then spun out in 2023 with a different ambition: build powerful general-purpose AI and release it with open weights. In just a short time, models like V2, V3, and R1 began challenging U.S. tech giants on performance, cost, and accessibility, triggering price wars, market reactions, and intense policy debate.

This episode walks through DeepSeek’s unusual origins, its research-first funding structure, and the engineering choices that let it reach near-frontier performance with far less compute. We explore why open weights became its defining move, how that decision empowered developers worldwide, and why some observers called its rise China’s “AI Sputnik moment.”

More than an AI company story, this is about how fast the balance of technological power can shift. It’s a look at what happens when talent, compute, and long-term thinking collide outside the usual Silicon Valley orbit, and what that means for the future of global AI competition.



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