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How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions

January 24, 2025
The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model.  The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which claims that R1 matches or even surpasses OpenAI’s ChatGPT o1 on multiple key benchmarks but operates at a fraction of the cost.  “This could be a truly equalizing breakthrough that is…