DeepSeek’s Exciting Growth Amazes the AI Community: The Dawn of Inexpensive AI Agents?

DeepSeek’s R1 has surprisingly fastened its visibility amongst the main players in the market with its unexpected performance that a rival is the OpenAI o1 models’ advanced capabilities. The accomplishment astonished a lot of people including even some industry experts who admit that the development of powerful large language models (LLM) has become possible at a low cost of the resources when compared to the Silicon Valley giants. In the course of this transition towards an increasingly AI-driven world, DeepSeek’s breakthrough is a technology evolution that might see a majority of AI firms and even various businesses very curious about it.

For many who hesitate utilizing AI because of concerns with data transparency, DeepSeek has introduced an exceptional approach. Contrary to some proprietary systems, DeepSeek is an open-source platform that allows users to run it in a closed environment under their own administration. In fact, this kind of openness presents businesses with the desired transparency and governance thus making it an important option for those who have distrust in the general integration of AI.

Another notable feature along with DeepSeek’s portfolio is LAIDFU, a multifunctional AI agent that supports settings with both OpenAI and DeepSeek tech. This diversity allows users to take advantage of both communiqués, and in turn, it reinforces AI agents that are portrayed as practical elements of modern technology strategies. While 2024 is touted as the year of the GenAI wave, many see 2025 as the season of the AI agent aka ‘agentic AI.’

This innovation wave, however, does not only feature AI agents. Retailers and other businesses are looking into the ways through which DeepSeek can help getting the enterprise resource planning (ERP) to a new level .

The practice of integrating the AI technology into the pre-existing ERP systems would enable the businesses to manage the processes in a more effective manner than they have ever done previously. The success of Singaporean firms is a prominent reason for them to switch to AI. The Enterprise Development Grant (EDG) is a funding scheme for the eligible enterprises in Singapore happy to install AI and ERP forms of technologies in their operations. The initiative backed by the government is beyond this directly influencing the businesses’ confidence and expansion.

Undoubtedly retailers are not the only sector that benefits from these improvements. Companies from a wide spectrum of industries are keen to discover how AI agents could change their operating processes and enhance the services they provide. AI, which has already impacted areas like Point Of Sale (POS) systems and enterprise planning, makes the significance of AI agents increasingly evident.

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About LAIDFU (Let AI Do For You)

An AI builder for enterprise to build their own AI agents.
Proprietary EKP (Enterprise Knowledge Partitioning) technology eases CEO’s concern about trade secret leakage which often occurs in most AI agents / chatbots in the market. EKP removes the hurdle of AI adoption by most companies in using sensitive corporate data.
Powered by no-code approach, deployment of LAIDFU incurs far less developers (and development costs) in comparison with other AI studios.