Can DeepSeek Disrupt the Hegemony of U.S. Tech Firms?

HE low-cost AI model from DeepSeek, R1, is now the most downloaded model across the globe and AI experts are drawing comparisons with OpenAI's ol. R1, a reasoning model, is trained with fewer chips compared with other models and so, it is cheaper.

- UMA KANNAN @ Bengaluru

Know about reasoning models Big companies are now coming up with reasoning models that cost huge money as these require computing resources to run. These models think and consider various approaches to generate a response. Be it OpenAI ol series models, R1 or Alibaba Cloud's reasoning AI model QwQ, these perform complex reasoning and arrive at solutions within seconds or minutes. Alibaba has now come up with a new version of its Qwen 2.5 model and it claims that the model outperforms across the board GPT-40, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B.