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.