AI from China: DeepSeek; Open Source

DeepSeek claims its 'reasoning' model beats OpenAI's o1 on certain benchmarks | TechCrunch

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released an open version of DeepSeek-R1, its so-called reasoning model, that it claims performs as well as OpenAI’s o1 on certain AI benchmarks.

R1 is available from the AI dev platform Hugging Face under an MIT license, meaning it can be used commercially without restrictions. According to DeepSeek, R1 beats o1 on the benchmarks AIME, MATH-500, and SWE-bench Verified.

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at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, Baidu’s CEO, Robin Li Yanhong, asked a surprising question: Does China have too many AI startups? As he put it: “In 2023, intense competition among over 100 LLMs has emerged in China, resulting in a significant waste of resources, particularly computing power. … How about real-world applications? Who has benefited from them?”

DeepSeek R1 - o1 Performance, Completely Open-Source - YouTube