The model uses far less computing power and far fewer chips – therefore far less money, roughly 3-5% of the development costs for ChatGPT – to achieve the same or better results as its US counterparts.
The global AI community widely considered the US the leader in AI, but R1 has called that dominance into question.
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, who is advising the Trump White House, called R1 “AI’s Sputnik moment”, a bona fide breakthrough.
The US was widely considered the leader in AI, but a Chinese startup has called that dominance into question.
A Chinese AI startup, DeepSeek, has released an open-sourced problem-solving model, R1, that’s wowed Silicon Valley.
