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January 28, 2025

As DeepSeek upsets the market, investors take stock: 'The only real losers are European LLM-makers'

The Chinese startup's success has shifted focus onto AI's application layer


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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek stunned investors when it released a high-performing chatbot to rival those built by the world's biggest tech companies –– seemingly at a fraction of the cost.

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Kai Nicol-Schwarz

Kai Nicol-Schwarz is a senior reporter at Sifted. He covers AI and UK tech, and can be found on X and LinkedIn

Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington is a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covers the DACH region and the future of work, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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