Ai2 says its new AI model beats one of DeepSeek’s best | TechCrunch

Move over, DeepSeek. There’s a new AI champion in town — and they’re American.

On Thursday, Ai2, a nonprofit AI research institute based in Seattle, released a model that it claims outperforms DeepSeek V3, one of Chinese AI company DeepSeek’s leading systems.

Ai2’s model, called Tulu3-405B, also beats OpenAI’s GPT-4o on certain AI benchmarks, according to Ai2’s internal testing. Moreover, unlike GPT-4o (and even DeepSeek V3), Tulu3-405B is open source, which means all…