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China’s cheap, open AI model DeepSeek thrills scientists

DeepSeek-R1 performs reasoning tasks at the same level as OpenAI’s o1 — and is open for researchers to examine.
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  1. Elizabeth Gibney

A Chinese-built large language model called DeepSeek-R1 is thrilling scientists as an affordable and open rival to ‘reasoning’ models such as OpenAI’s o1.

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Nature 638, 13-14 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-00229-6

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