DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose ...

DeepSeek’s logo is a plump, bright blue whale that almost appears to be jumping across the screen. It’s accompanied by the brand’s wordmark in a rounded, fractured sans-serif font.

But it wasn't until last spring, when the startup released its next-gen DeepSeek-V2 family of models, that the AI industry started to take notice. DeepSeek-V2, a general-purpose text- and image ...