What is DeepSeek R-1?
Why is this Chinese language model so popular? It's open-source and it's so damn cheap reasoning model.
In recent days, I’ve spent a big chunk of my time trying out the new Chinese AI chatbot, Deepseek R-1. It’s been getting a ton of attention over the past several days, and for good reasons: the chatbot is truly capable—sometimes even better than ChatGPT. And it’s cheap. So damn cheap.
Despite being relatively new, it’s already making a dent in the AI spa…