DeepSeek Just Did What OpenAI Wouldn’t

Jan 22, 2025

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China’s DeepSeek has launched DeepSeek-R1, an MIT-licensed, fully open-source reasoning model that rivals OpenAI’s o1—and developers are losing it. Unlike OpenAI’s closed ecosystem, DeepSeek-R1 is free to modify, fine-tune, and commercialise, making it a dream come true for researchers and businesses alike.

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