Innovations made by China’s DeepSeek could soon lead to the creation of AI agents that have strong reasoning skills but are also small enough to run directly on people’s computers and mobile devices, according to a researcher at the open-source AI organization Hugging Face.
Starting with OpenAI’s o1 last September, the past several months have seen the emergence of AI models that can “reason” in a sense, by doing step-by-step thinking. DeepSeek astonished the sector two weeks ago by releasing a reasoning model called R1 that could match o1’s performance in many tasks, despite the fact that it cost a fraction as much to train.
