In a mere week, DeepSeek‘s R1 large language model has dethroned ChatGPT on the App Store, shaken up the stock market, and posed a serious threat to OpenAI and, by extension, U.S. dominance of the AI industry.
Last Monday, Chinese AI company DeepSeek released an open-source LLM called DeepSeek R1, becoming the buzziest AI chatbot since ChatGPT. It’s purportedly just as good — if not better — than OpenAI’s models, cheaper to use, and allegedly developed with way fewer chips than its competitors. Here’s what you need to know about DeepSeek R1 and why everyone is suddenly talking about it.
DeepSeek R1 claims to surpass OpenAI models in key benchmarks
With the release of DeepSeek R1, the company published a report on its capabilities, including performance on industry-standard benchmarks. DeepSeek claims its LLM beat OpenAI’s reasoning model o1 on advanced math and coding tests (AIME 2024, MATH-500, SWE-bench Verified) and earned just below o1 on another programming benchmark (Codeforces), …