DeepSeek-R1: China’s $5 Million AI Model Shocks Silicon Valley and Redraws the AI Battle Lines

The AI world is abuzz, and for once, the hype seems genuinely disruptive; all thanks to DeepSeek-R1 DeepSeek-R1, a new reasoning model from a relatively small Chinese startup called DeepSeek AI, has sent shockwaves through the tech and financial sectors alike: being a free and open-source AI model boasting near-SOTA performance at a fraction of [ ]