DeepSeek-R1: Budget AI Rivaling GPT-4 Performance
DeepSeek-R1 emerges as a budget-friendly AI model that delivers performance comparable to GPT-4, offering advanced reasoning capabilities at a fraction of the
Someone noticed that DeepSeek’s new R1 model is shaking things up as a serious alternative to the expensive American AI models.
The interesting part: DeepSeek-R1 costs way less to run while matching performance of GPT-4 and Claude on most benchmarks. Chinese companies trained it for around $6 million versus the hundreds of millions OpenAI spent.
Try it yourself:
- Direct API:
https://api.deepseek.com/v1 - Also available through platforms like Poe and integrated into some coding tools
The competition seems to be working - US companies are already responding by dropping prices and releasing stronger models faster. Turns out when a capable model shows up at 1/10th the cost, everyone has to step up their game.
Pretty interesting development for anyone watching the AI space or looking to save on API costs for projects.
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