I want to try to cut through some of the noise that's circulating on the rise of DeepSeek R1, the new open source AI model ...

The arrival of a new AI chatbot developed by a Chinese startup has fuelled competition in the artificial intelligence sphere.

The Chinese chatbot took the world by storm and rattled stock markets. But lost in all the attention was a focus on how the company is collecting and storing data.

It's 63% cheaper than OpenAI o1-mini and 93% cheaper than the full o1 model, priced at $1.10/$4.40 per million tokens in/out.