First peer-reviewed study shows how a Chinese start-up firm made the market-shaking LLM for US$300,000. R1 is designed to excel at ‘reasoning’ tasks such as mathematics and coding, and is a cheaper ...

MUCH OF THE art of medicine involves working out, through detailed questioning and physical examination, which disease a given patient has contracted. Far harder, but no less desirable, would be ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it ...