Chinese Open-Source AI DeepSeek R1 Matches OpenAI’s o1 at 98% Lower Cost – Decrypt

Chinese AI researchers have achieved what many thought was light years away: A free, open-source AI model that can match or exceed the performance of OpenAI’s most advanced reasoning systems. What makes this even more remarkable was how they did it: by letting the AI teach itself through trial and error, similar to how humans learn.

“DeepSeek-R1-Zero, a model trained via large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) without supervised fine-tuning (SFT) as a preliminary step, demonstrates…