China's DeepSeek Aims to Rival OpenAI's 'Reasoning' Model

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Chinese artificial intelligence research company DeepSeek, funded by quantitative trading firms, introduced what it says is one of the first reasoning models to rival OpenAI o1.

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Reasoning models aim to address hallucinations and logical errors in generative AI by engaging in self-fact checking and performing multi-step reasoning tasks. Advanced processing capabilities can also increase response times, sometimes taking several dozen seconds to "think" of responses to complex queries.

DeepSeek previewed its AI model on Wednesday, claiming it demonstrated competitive performance against OpenAI's o1-preview model on benchmarks such as AIME, which evaluates AI capabilities using other models, and MATH, a collection of problem-solving tests. But the model, like its OpenAI counterpart, struggles with simpler ...