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DeepSeek V3.1 just dropped — and it might be the most powerful open AI yet
China's DeepSeek has released a 685-billion parameter open-source AI model, DeepSeek V3.1, challenging OpenAI and Anthropic with breakthrough performance, hybrid reasoning, and zero-cost access on Hugging Face.
Within hours, early performance tests revealed benchmark scores that rival proprietary systems from OpenAI and Anthropic, while the model’s open-source license ensures global access unconstrained by geopolitical tensions. The real breakthrough lies in what DeepSeek calls its “hybrid architecture.” Unlike previous attempts at combining different AI capabilities, which often resulted in systems that performed poorly at everything, V3.1 seamlessly integrates chat, reasoning, and coding functions into a single, coherent model. While American companies maintain strict control over their most advanced systems, requiring expensive API access and imposing usage restrictions, DeepSeek makes comparable capabilities freely available for download, modification, and deployment anywhere in the world.
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