U.S.-China Tensions Over AI High. China Just Released DeepSeek-R1 And It's Open-Source.

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Free ChatGPT users will get a chance to try OpenAI’s state-of-the-art reasoning model, o3-mini, when it rolls out in the coming weeks.

DeepSeek’s DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model matches OpenAI’s o1 on benchmarks like AIME and MATH-500. With 671 billion parameters, it offers competitive performance at a lower cost but is subject to Chinese regulation constraints. Available on Hugging Face, this release comes amid U.S.-China tensions over AI tech development and export controls.