Assessing DeepSeek: Disruption in the AI Industry

Assessing DeepSeek: Disruption in the AI Industry

• DeepSeek, a quant company, was founded in December 2023 by Liang Wenfeng.
• On November 2, 2023, DeepSeek Coder models were released.
• In December 2024, DeepSeek-V3 was released, a versatile and cost-effective large language model.
• On January 20, 2025, DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-R1-Zero were released, DeepSeek’s most capable models for complex reasoning and problem-solving. In addition, six smaller “distilled” versions enable operation on local devices. DeepSeek AI Assistant, a chatbot leveraging DeepSeek-V3, was also made available.
• On January 28, 2025, DeepSeek Janus-Pro, a set of multimodal models for image generation, was released. DeepSeek model highlights
• DeepSeek-R1 is the first open-source model to match the performance of OpenAI’s o1 across a range of core tasks.
• DeepSeek models are open source. Its weights have been published and they have all been made commercially available, enabling organizations to build with this technology without any licensing constraints.
• DeepSeek introduces new reinforcement learning techniques to train the model, drastically reducing the time and complexity for developing the model.

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AI customers and companies are questioning if they are overpaying for AI capabilities Market reaction to the introduction of DeepSeek has been unprecedented DeepSeek performance benchmarks vs. OpenAI
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