Chinese startup DeepSeek has disrupted the AI industry with its low-cost, open-source model, prompting industry giants to reassess their approaches. Sega Cheng, AI expert, and iKala co-founder, emphasized the importance of reinforcement learning (RL) while noting ongoing debate over DeepSeek's actual GPU usage.

The artificial intelligence race has been dominated by proprietary models from OpenAI and Google, but a new challenger is shifting the landscape. DeepSeek’s latest AI model, R1, has bolstered the case for open-source AI,