India, Feb. 25 -- On 20 January this year, a very little-known Chinese upstart named DeepSeek released what it claimed to be a foundational Artificial Intelligence (AI) model called R1-seemingly designed at the same scale as the world's largest, most complex commercially released foundational large language model (LLM) until now, the OpenAI o1 Pro. In what now feels like seconds, DeepSeek became the most sought-after worldwide for the way it handled data and restructured the needs.

Before anything else, some added context: foundational LLMs are massively complex AI algorithms trained on vast troves of data by a company. This database includes as diverse a range of data as possible-US firm OpenAI is notoriously embroiled in an industrial ...