A deep dive into DeepSeek’s newest chain of though model

Hands on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek this week unveiled a family of LLMs it claims not only replicates OpenAI’s o1 reasoning capabilities, but challenges the American model builder’s dominance in a whole host of benchmarks.

Founded in 2023 by Chinese entrepreneur Liang Wenfeng and funded by his quantitative hedge fund High Flyer, DeepSeek has now shared a number of highly competitive, openly available machine-learning models, despite America’s efforts to keep AI acceleration out of…