Chinese startup DeepSeek has released a “low cost” open-source artificial intelligence model rivalling OpenAI’s ChatGPT, drawing appreciation as well as concern from the Silicon Valley.
The R1 model made public last week appears to match OpenAI’s newer 01 models on several benchmarks. DeepSeek claims to have spent less than $6 million to train it compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars that American companies like Google, OpenAI and Meta have poured in to train their AI models.
