On the same day the biggest names in the US tech sector were watching the inauguration of their President from a better vantage point than most of the incoming cabinet picks, a small hedge-fund-turned-AI-research-lab based out of Hangzhou, China released an article that was about to turn their worlds upside down. DeepSeek, a company of less than 200 people (compared to 3500+ of OpenAI or Anthropic and just over 1000), announced their first reasoning model: DeepSeek R1.… Read More