Artificial Intelligence

The sense that the US retains a commanding lead in the AI race suffered a significant blow in early 2025 when DeepSeek, a small Chinese computer lab using open sources, released its R1 LLM model. Unlike its US rivals, DeepSeek made its research approach to LLM-building public; it also revealed it was able to use Nvidia GPU chips more effectively than its rivals. Most significantly. DeepSeek claimed it used only 2,048 Nvidia H800 chips and an investment of US$5.6m to train a model with 671bn parameters.