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Caleb Naysmith

The OpenAI of China is ‘Now Approaching’ ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini

Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek has announced a significant upgrade to its flagship large language model, R1, intensifying competition with industry leaders OpenAI and Google (GOOG) (GOOGL). The new version, dubbed DeepSeek-R1-0528, is now being positioned as a direct challenger to OpenAI’s o3 and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, with benchmark results and technical enhancements that show China’s rapidly advancing AI sector. “Its overall performance is now approaching that of leading models, such as O3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro,” DeepSeek said in a post on HuggingFace.

Key Upgrades and Performance Gains

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