DeepSeek V3: China's AI Triumph Amid US Sanctions

Hangzhou-based startup DeepSeek made waves in late 2024 with its DeepSeek V3, an open-source LLM boasting 671 billion parameters. Developed in two months at $5.58M using 2048 GPUs, V3 rivals Meta and OpenAI despite US sanctions restricting advanced tech access. Praised by Nvidia's Jim Fan for its Mixture-of-Experts architecture and multihead latent attention, DeepSeek V3 excels in coding and math benchmarks. Yet, it humorously misidentifies as ChatGPT occasionally, reminding us that even top AI can have an identity glitch.