China’s AI Game-Changer DeepSeek Quietly Updates R1 Model
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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek quietly released an upgraded R1 model that rivals OpenAI's o4 mini and outperforms Elon Musk's Grok 3 mini, reinforcing China's rising AI competitiveness.
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Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released an update to its R1 reasoning model in the early hours of Thursday, stepping up competition with US rivals such as OpenAI.
Chinese tech startup DeepSeek released an update to its R1 reasoning model on Thursday, drawing growing attention from multiple media outlets, with some of them saying that the latest move is set to ramp up competition with OpenAI.
The Chinese startup DeepSeek said Thursday that its upgraded artificial-intelligence model can perform mathematics, programming, and general logic better than the previous version, while hallucinating less.
The launch of R1 in January sent tech shares outside China plummetting in January and challenged the view that scaling AI requires vast computing power and investment. Since R1’s release, Chinese tech giants like Alibaba and Tencent have released models claiming to surpass DeepSeek’s.
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