DeepSeek Shows Another World is Possible

Last week, a Chinese startup, DeepSeek, released R1, a large-language model rivaling ChatGPT, that is already unraveling the U.S. tech world. The open-source model performs just as well, if not better, than its American counterparts. The shock comes mainly from the extremely low cost with which the model was trained. R1 cost just $5.6 million [...]