Nearly two years ago, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, propelling America ahead in the AI race, leaving other nations, especially China, visibly behind. At ChatGPT's launch, China seemed distant in the AI marathon.
Following ChatGPT, Google, Meta, and Amazon also unveiled their AI chatbots. In response, Chinese companies like Alibaba and Baidu invested billions. Yet, the prominent name in this race is a startup, DeepSeek. The question remains: Is DeepSeek’s AI model better than ChatGPT and others?
DeepSeek R1 is a reasoning model developed by Chinese startup DeepSeek, launched just a month ago. This reasoning model is rapidly gaining attention, delivering extraordinary performance at an attractive price. DeepSeek R1 is designed for augmented reasoning and analytical capabilities.
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It's an advanced language model, structured on a hybrid architecture, similar to its predecessor V3, clearly indicating this isn't the company’s first model.
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Despite R1 garnering significant attention, DeepSeek remains relatively unknown. The company, headquartered in Hangzhou, China, was founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng. Its mission is to develop AGI or Artificial General Intelligence.
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A major factor in DeepSeek R1’s popularity is its affordability. While OpenAI charges $15 per million input tokens and $60 per million output tokens, DeepSeek R1 is priced at just $0.55 per million input tokens and $2.19 per million output tokens.
The company claims it took only two months to develop this AI model. In contrast, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft have spent billions of dollars and years crafting their AI models, whereas DeepSeek accomplished this with just 6 million dollars.
