DeepSeek R1, released January 20. 2025, is an open source large language model (LLM), on par with the capabilities of OpenAI’s o1 model, that you can scale to run on your own hardware, or the cloud infrastructure of your choice, today, and it won’t cost you anything — well, maybe a GPU.
With this development, artificial intelligence, the futurist term adopted by companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and Google, who want you to believe that LLMs can achieve more than they currently can and probably ever will, and only through their input and infinite money pile, has been freely proliferated for all — has sent these companies into freefall and damage control.
