A CHINESE LAB HAS RELEASED A ‘REASONING' AI MODEL TO RIVAL OPENAI'S O1

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DeepSeek has released a preview of DeepSeek-R1, a reasoning model the firm claims is competitive with OpenAI's o1. DeepSeek-R1 can reason through tasks, plan ahead, and perform a series of actions that help the model arrive at an answer. The company plans to open source DeepSeek-R1 and release an API. It is backed by a Chinese quantitative hedge fund called High-Flyer Capital Management.