DeepSeek’s updated R1 reasoning AI model might be getting the bulk of the AI community’s attention this week. But the Chinese ...

DeepSeek’s logo is a plump, bright blue whale that almost appears to be jumping across the screen. It’s accompanied by the brand’s wordmark in a rounded, fractured sans-serif font.

But it wasn't until last spring, when the startup released its next-gen DeepSeek-V2 family of models, that the AI industry started to take notice. DeepSeek-V2, a general-purpose text- and image ...

It published the full weights of DeepSeek-V2-R1-0528, a mixture-of-experts model with a total of 685 billion parameters, under an open license. The model is a glimpse into the kind of high-performance ...

This was followed by DeepSeek LLM, which aimed to compete with other major language models. DeepSeek-V2, released in May 2024, gained traction due to its strong performance and low cost.

The predecessor of DeepSeek's V3 model, DeepSeek-V2, triggered an AI model price war in China after it was released last May. The fact that DeepSeek-V2 was open-source and unprecedentedly cheap ...