China’s cheap, open AI model DeepSeek thrills scientists

Elizabeth Gibney

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A Chinese-built large language model called DeepSeek-R1 is thrilling scientists as an affordable and open rival to ‘reasoning’ models such as OpenAI’s o1.

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