China's DeepSeek just showed every American tech company how quickly it's catching up in AI
The Chinese startup DeepSeek released an AI reasoning model that appears to rival the abilities of a frontier model from OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.
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- An AI startup in China just showed how it's closing the gap with America's top AI labs.
- The Chinese startup DeepSeek released a new AI model last Monday that appears to rival OpenAI's o1.
- Its reasoning capabilities have stunned top American AI researchers.
Donald Trump started his new presidency by declaring America must lead the world. He just got a warning shot from an AI crack team in China that's ready to show that US technological supremacy is not a given.
Meet DeepSeek, a Chinese startup spun off from a decade-old hedge fund that calculates shrewd trades with AI and algorithms. Its latest release, which came on the day Trump was inaugurated, has left many of America's top industry researchers stunned.
In a paper released last Monday, DeepSeek unveiled a new flagship AI model called R1 that shows off a new level of "reasoning." Why it has left such a huge impression on AI experts in the US matters.
