First peer-reviewed study shows how a Chinese start-up firm made the market-shaking LLM for US$300,000. R1 is designed to excel at ‘reasoning’ tasks such as mathematics and coding, and is a cheaper ...

The success of DeepSeek’s powerful artificial intelligence (AI) model R1 — that made the US stock market plummet when it was released in January — did not hinge on being trained on the output of its ...