What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear about an AI lab called “DeepSeek”? Maybe a Chinese open-source contributor that has been keeping the top American labs humble for like the last two years.

DeepSeek is known for delivering AI at the cheapest rates. I know OpenAI and Anthropic keep accusing DeepSeek, Kimi, and other Chinese AI labs of distilling their models. Maybe true, maybe not! But I am not here to discuss that.

I am here to tell you that DeepSeek has contributed much more to AI in terms of research and innovation than just delivering cheap AI models.

In this post, I am gonna tell you what DeepSeek has contributed to the AI community, how much today’s AI stack has been accelerated because DeepSeek showed everyone how it was doing things, and trust me, if you are geek-minded, some of this will amaze you.