Seena Rejal, chief commercial officer of NetMind, a London-headquartered startup that offers access to DeepSeek's AI models via a distributed GPU network, said he saw no reason not to believe DeepSeek.
"Even if it's off by a certain factor, it still is coming in as greatly efficient," Rejal told CNBC in a phone interview earlier this week. "The logic of what they've explained is very sensible."
However, some have claimed DeepSeek's technology might not have been built from scratch.
"DeepSeek makes the same mistakes O1 makes, a strong indication the technology was ripped off," billionaire investor Vinod Khosla said on X, without giving more details.