Scope: Global

AI & Automation

The China-US AI Race: How DeepSeek and Open-Source Models Are Reshaping the Industry

The DeepSeek Shock On January 20, 2025, a Chinese AI lab called DeepSeek released DeepSeek-R1 — a reasoning model that matched OpenAI's o1 on key benchmarks, ran at roughly 95% lower inference cost, and was released as open-weight software under the MIT License. The reaction