Government policies, generous funding and a pipeline of AI graduates have helped Chinese firms create advanced LLMs.

Less than a week after the new artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek sent investors spiraling in the United States, another AI model has popped up in China, claiming to be even better.

DeepSeek, a new Chinese generative AI, is creating headlines globally claiming it's better than ChatGPT. We dive deeper into its origin and how it's been able to create such a buzz.