Scientists flock to DeepSeek: how they’re using the blockbuster AI model

Scientists are flocking to DeepSeek-R1, a cheap and powerful artificial intelligence (AI) ‘reasoning’ model that sent the US stock market spiralling after it was released by a Chinese firm last week.

Repeated tests suggest that DeepSeek-R1’s ability to solve mathematics and science problems matches that of the o1 model, released in September by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, whose reasoning…