This is on top of the exorbitant amount of water required for cooling per query, with GPT-4 consuming up to four times more water for cooling than previously thought—three water bottles to generate a mere 100 words.

Some AI researchers hailed DeepSeek’s R1 as a breakthrough on the same level as DeepMind’s AlphaZero, a 2017 model that became superhuman at the board games Chess and Go by purely playing against itself and improving, rather than observing any human games.

The announcement confirms one of two rumors that circled the internet this week. The other was about superintelligence.

This story incorporates reporting fromPC Gamer, BGR, MIT Technology Review, Computerworld, TechRadar and newsbytesapp.com.OpenAI has released Operator, a largely autonomous AI tool designed to execute tasks on the internet based on simple text prompts.

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Hedge fund manager and entrepreneur Liang Wenfeng built an AI model on a tight budget despite US attempts to halt China’s high-tech ambitions.

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Users across various platforms have reported instances where OpenAI's o1 model begins its reasoning process in English but unexpectedly shifts to Chinese, Persian, or other languages

R1, sent shockwaves through Wall Street, with major tech firms—most notably Nvidia—experiencing sharp stock declines.

In just a few weeks, Liang Wenfeng, the 39-year-old founder of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, has become a defining figure in China’s tech landscape. His company’s breakthrough AI model has not only challenged Western dominance in artificial intelligence but also sparked a global selloff in tech stocks following its launch last week.