Best Of 2025: DeepSeek Has The AI World, Especially Silicon Valley, In Deep Duress
Techstrong.ai, December 11,2025
DeepSeek, a Chinese startup behind a new artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of new levels of 'reasoning', is making waves of deep impact throughout Silicon Valley and beyond, raising questions about the U.S.'s dominance in AI.
The model, called R1, outperformed OpenAI's o1 in a set of third-party benchmark tests released Monday. R1 is the latest creation from DeepSeek whose DeepSeek-V3 AI system can match or outperform chatbots from America's best - despite being built at a fraction of the cost and with less-powerful chips.
'To see the DeepSeek new model, it's super impressive in terms of both how they have really effectively done an open-source model that does this inference-time compute, and is super-compute efficient,' Microsoft Corp. CEO Satya Nadella said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday. 'We should take the developments out of China very, very seriously.'