Some AI researchers hailed DeepSeek’s R1 as a breakthrough on the same level as DeepMind’s AlphaZero, a 2017 model that became superhuman at the board games Chess and Go by purely playing against itself and improving, rather than observing any human games.

DeepSeek’s R1 AI model competes with OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model across math, coding, and science on an even playing field at 3% of the cost.

The Chinese startup DeepSeek released an AI reasoning model that appears to rival the abilities of a frontier model from OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.

The announcement confirms one of two rumors that circled the internet this week. The other was about superintelligence.

This story incorporates reporting fromPC Gamer, BGR, MIT Technology Review, Computerworld, TechRadar and newsbytesapp.com.OpenAI has released Operator, a largely autonomous AI tool designed to execute tasks on the internet based on simple text prompts.

Hedge fund manager and entrepreneur Liang Wenfeng built an AI model on a tight budget despite US attempts to halt China’s high-tech ambitions.

A string of startups are racing to build models that can produce better and better software. They claim it’s the shortest path to AGI.

When you think of AI’s contributions to science, you probably think of AlphaFold, the Google DeepMind protein-folding program that earned its creator a Nobel Prize last year. Now OpenAI says it’s getting into the science game too—with a model for ...

Researchers are identifying current and future dangers within AI models away from the conflicts of interest they’d face in the industry

DeepSeek's friendly whale hearkens back to a more playful era of tech branding—and it might just be the disruptor the AI industry needs.

Chinese artificial intelligence group’s use of ‘reinforcement learning’ and ‘small language models’ leads to breakthroughs

Mistral, the French AI lab, is working toward an initial public offering, co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch said in an interview at Davos.