Possibly overhyped so take specific claims with a grain of salt, but interesting summary of how people are responding to R1, the new AI model competing with OpenAI at much lower cost.
Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek
DeepSeek has a free website and mobile app even for U.S. users with an R1-powered chatbot interface similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT.
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