So, what is DeepSeek? It’s a very good model and chatbot, in the same general category as ChatGPT’s top available model, o1. These models rely on “reasoning.” For example, I asked R1 about one endless debate: “At their peaks,

DeepSeek has boomed in popularity after its successful launch, breaking into the U.S. artificial intelligence market from China.

The buzz around Chinese AI startup DeepSeek began picking up steam earlier this month, when the startup released R1, its model that rivals OpenAI’s o1.