With an actual open source model, China's AI leader just whupped America's AI leader. Can Sam Altman fight back?

DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence (AI) research lab in China, has cracked the ‘holy grail of AI models’ by achieving performance at par with the world’s best chatbots at a fraction of the cost. Last week,

At a supposed cost of just $6 million to train, DeepSeek’s new R1 model, released last week, was able to match the performance on several math and reasoning metrics by OpenAI’s o1 model – the outcome of tens of billions of dollars in investment by OpenAI and its patron Microsoft.