The conventional wisdom in AI has long been that cutting-edge performance comes with a cutting-edge price tag. DeepSeek is turning this notion on its head.

Key Takeaways Despite the success of a Chinese start-up's $6 million AI model, tech giants Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta are unlikely to change their plans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on AI infrastructure this year,

While the Chinese AI start-up has found innovative ways to reduce infrastructure costs for deploying AI, it's easily replicated by more mature and secure models.