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A Chinese lab has released a ‘reasoning’ AI model to rival OpenAI’s o1


DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab backed by a quant hedge fund, has released a 'reasoning' model that it claims rivals OpenAI's o1.

On Wednesday, DeepSeek, a quantitative trader-funded AI research company, released a preview of DeepSeek-R1, which the firm claims is a reasoning model competitive with o1. In our testing, the model refused to answer questions about Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Tiananmen Square, and the geopolitical implications of China invading Taiwan. A flurry of press reports suggest that models from major AI labs including OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic aren’t improving as dramatically as they once did.

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