The artificial intelligence race has been dominated by proprietary models from OpenAI and Google, but a new challenger is shifting the landscape. DeepSeek’s latest AI model, R1, has bolstered the case for open-source AI,

Chinese startup DeepSeek has disrupted the AI industry with its low-cost, open-source model, prompting industry giants to reassess their approaches. Sega Cheng, AI expert, and iKala co-founder, emphasized the importance of reinforcement learning (RL) while noting ongoing debate over DeepSeek's actual GPU usage.

A little over two weeks ago, a largely unknown China-based company named DeepSeek stunned the AI world with the release of an open source AI chatbot that had simulated reasoning capabilities that were largely on par with those from market leader OpenAI.

Code hidden in DeepSeek's application has been found with the capability to send user data directly to the Chinese government.

DeepSeek code may send U.S. user data straight to the Chinese government: report - Chinese-developed AI model shook tech world after its debut last month