On 20 January 2025, a day when the tech titans of the West were in prominent attendance at Trump’s presidential inauguration, a little known China artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek released an open source version of its R1 model, a technical report as well as licencing for unrestricted commercial use.
This was no ordinary AI app. It matched and surpassed the leading AI app, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, on several key benchmarks. Perhaps most important ...





