New Delhi, Jan. 28 -- 1. A good David versus Goliath fightOpenAI was launched by the likes of billionaire Elon Musk. Even though Musk exited the scene, OpenAI achieved a valuation of $100 billion plus. They joined hands with Microsoft and Nvidia, both which achieved a valuation of a whopping $3 trillion plus. DeepSeek on the other hand was a side project of Liang Wenfeng, who is the co-founder of High-Flyer (a hedge fund) and cost just $6 million.

2. It's a real game-changerThe ChatGPT and Co. models consisted of very large trained LLMs and an expensive Nvidia AI chip ecosystem. It was very difficult to think of a newcomer to change the game. DeepSeek's R1 uses reinforcement learning versus huge expensive datasets of the Americans. Imagi...