It’s been a rollercoaster week for artificial intelligence, with DeepSeek completely destabilizing the AI market by releasing its R1 reasoning model and not only giving everybody access to it for free (as a chatbot), but also giving developers incredibly cost-effective access to it as an API.
DeepSeek was then hit by cyber attacks that temporarily took it offline, but it appears to be up and running again. To cap the week off, OpenAI responded by releasing its o3-mini and o3-mini-high reasoning models across all its subscription services, including its Plus and Pro subscriptions and its free tier.
