Eshwar Sundaresan

2 months ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Kalim Ahmed |Srinivas Kodali |Eshwar Sundaresan |Jinoy Jose P

On the last weekend of January, a little-known Chinese company upended the tech world’s established order. DeepSeek, a Hangzhou-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup, rattled Silicon Valley giants and sent shockwaves through global markets after releasing its AI assistant. By the end of the weekend, the AI assistant had topped the downloads chart on both Apple Inc.’s App Store and Google’s Play Store, even straining DeepSeek’s own systems to the point of temporary shutdown.