Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek sent shares of major technology companies into a tailspin after it revealed a highly cost-effective AI model that was trained using limited resources but is competent enough to match the performance of more powerful and expensive models from the likes of OpenAI.

Big spending on GPUs from the hedge fund that spawned DeepSeek has some casting doubt on the company’s true expenditures while acknowledging innovation.

Global chip stocks slumped Monday on DeepSeek revealing it had developed AI models that nearly matched American rivals despite using inferior chips.

A surprise development may have turned the market for artificial intelligence (AI) chips on its head. DeepSeek, a China-based start-up, developed an open-source large language model, claiming it took two months and cost less than $6 million.

Pat Gelsinger, former CEO at Intel (INTC), is not sweating over new, low-cost artificial intelligence models from Chinese startup DeepSeek. Instead, he believes that DeepSeek’s cost-effective AI model will be a net positive for the industry.