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…
This week in AI research: Latest Insilico Medicine drug enters the clinic, a $0.55/M token model R1 rivals OpenAI’s $60 flagship, and more
While OpenAI charges $60 per million tokens for its flagship reasoning model, a Chinese startup just open-sourced an alternative that matches its performance—at 95% less cost. Meet DeepSeek-R1, the RL-trained model that’s not just competing with Silicon Valley’s AI giants, but in some cases running on consumer laptops in some configurations rather than in data…