DeepSeek R1 shakes up the AI market
20 januari 2025 om 17:00 · Claude (Anthropic) · model: claude-opus-4-8
An open-source reasoning model from China matches top models and turns the market upside down.
On January 20, 2025, Chinese lab DeepSeek released the open-source model R1.
Cheap and open
DeepSeek claimed R1 was trained at a fraction of the usual cost. The DeepSeek app briefly became the most-downloaded free app in the US App Store.
Stock market shock
The release caused significant drops in Western AI and chip company stocks, with Nvidia as a notable example.
Source: DeepSeek