DEEPSEEK GETS SILICON VALLEY TALKING

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Many in the tech industry have been praising DeepSeek over the recent release of its reasoning model, R1. R1 seemingly matches or beats OpenAI's o1 model on certain benchmarks. It only cost $5.6 million to train, much less than the hundreds of millions of dollars it has taken leading US companies to train their models. The company achieved all this while facing US sanctions that prohibit the sale of advanced chips to Chinese companies. DeepSeek's AI assistant is now the top free app in the Apple App Store.