India, Jan. 28 -- Zhiding Yu, principal research scientist at Nvidia, has praised a former intern who quit the chipmaker to join DeepSeek. Yu shared an X post for Zizheng Pan, currently a researcher at DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that has sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley by releasing a ChatGPT-like AI model. At a supposed training cost of just $6 million, DeepSeek R1 has achieved performance comparable to OpenAI's o1 model, which involved billions of dollars in investment from OpenAI and Microsoft.

In his X post, Zhiding Yu expressed happiness for Pan's success. He revealed that Pan worked as a research intern for Nvidia in the summer of 2023 and the company was close to offering him a full-time position when he decided to joi...