Why DeepSeek had to be open source
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DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, open-sourced R1, a reasoning model comparable to OpenAI's o1 but trained more efficiently and cheaply. This move builds trust in Western markets and reflects the growing commoditization of language models, with DeepSeek R1 costing $7 per million output tokens compared to OpenAI's $60.
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