I’m an AI startup founder. Here are the 3 reasons my company is planning to switch to DeepSeek.

• Steve Hsu, cofounder of AI startup SuperFocus, says that DeepSeek is an impressive company.
• His team is testing how DeepSeek models run with the SuperFocus system and plans to make the shift.
• Hsu finds that DeepSeek models are cheaper, faster, and more private.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Steve Hsu, cofounder of AI startup SuperFocus and professor of theoretical physics and computational mathematics, science, and engineering at…