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DeepSeek shows the stakes for humanity couldn’t be higher

29 January 2025

5:00 PM

29 January 2025

5:00 PM

What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI system that’s shaken the world, and what does it reveal about our future?

While DeepSeek has been around since 2023, what shocked the world was the release on 20 January of their DeepSeek-R1 AI model, a Large Language Model (LLM) that is just as intelligent as American giant OpenAI’s latest AI o1, but was far cheaper to create.

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