DeepSeek has surged ahead of ChatGPT among X users, commanding 86.8% of stated preferences among 2,347 analyzed X/Twitter posts, based on an analysis from Topview. In the dataset, 86.8% expressed a preference for DeepSeek compared to 12.1% for ChatGPT, 0.8% for Claude and 0.3% for Gemini. Overall, close to seven times more users expressing a…
Tech’s trillion-dollar tumble and 7 other major R&D moves this week
Welcome to our weekly briefing on R&D headlines for January 27, 2025. In this edition, we cover the disruption from China’s DeepSeek reasoning AI model R1, which punches above its weight class. Ostensibly trained on a shoestring budget, it outperforms OpenAI’s o1 by some measures, according to DeepSeek’s technical report. The company also has publicly…