DeepSeek R1 shook the AI industry: strong math and coding results with open weights and transparent training details. It triggered a market reaction over inferenceRunning a trained model to produce predictions — as opposed to the training phase that learns weights. economics and proved Chinese labs could ship frontier reasoningStep-by-step logical thinking in AI models — chain-of-thought before answering hard problems. models competitively.

DeepSeek R1 disrupted assumptions about who could build frontier reasoningStep-by-step logical thinking in AI models — chain-of-thought before answering hard problems. models.

Open reasoningStep-by-step logical thinking in AI models — chain-of-thought before answering hard problems. weights challenged closed APIApplication programming interface — a defined way for programs to talk to each other or to a service. dominance and pricing models.