What Is DeepSeek? Everything to Know About China’s ChatGPT Rival and Why It Might Mean the End of the AI Trade.
A Chinese artificial-intelligence lab released a new language model named DeepSeek R1 last week—it could possibly upend the bull market. For example, I asked R1 about one endless debate: “At their peaks, who was the better basketball player, Michael Jordan or LeBron James?” The first thing R1 did was have a 900-word conversation with itself, exploring the two men’s careers, and the meanings of “peak” and “better.” The startling claims made by DeepSeek is that the underlying model to R1, which is called V3 and doesn’t reason, was made on 2,048 AI accelerators in under two months for less than $6 million.