DeepSeek

The new artificial intelligence arms race is referred to as DeepSeek

DeepSeek has announced that it is testing its new AI-based self-driving car-sharing service, ‘La Llama’. The product will allow users to rent or own a car from a local dealer. It will also let users pay by credit card for purchases, and will be available on the company’s website. DeepSeek is in talks with several major automobile manufacturers to work on the service.

China created an artificial intelligence model that surprised the world

China-based artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has released an open-source’reasoning’ model called DeepSeek-R1, which can solve some scientific problems at a similar standard to the OpenAI’s LLM. Alibaba released its most advanced LLM so far, Qwen2.5-Max, which the company says outperforms DeepSeek’s V3, another LLM it released in December. Earlier, Moonshot and ByteDance released new reasoning models.

There is evidence that Openai’s models helped train China

Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating whether Chinese rival DeepSeek used OpenAI’s framework to integrate its models into their own, The Wall Street Journal reported. It said DeepSeek believes that large amounts of data were dumped through its developer accounts, which it believes are affiliated with DeepSeek. Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating if DeepSeek’s technology was integrated into their own.