The artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem was rocked recently by news that Chinese start-up DeepSeek had developed a cost-effective and competent large language model on the cheap. That revelation called into question the tens of billions of dollars that are being poured into the buildout of AI infrastructure,

After the arrival of a less costly A.I. model from China, U.S. markets and academics are wrestling with the ultimate economic value of the technology.

Artificial intelligence (AI) investing experienced a shakeup when DeepSeek announced that its R1 model was trained for just $5.6 million. However, that doesn't include hardware costs or any pre-training that was done.