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Why is DeepSeek such a game-changer? Scientists explain how the AI models work and why they were so cheap to build.
By Ben Turner last updated
DeepSeek's V3 and R1 models took the world by storm this week. Here's why they're such a big deal.

Alibaba claims its AI model trounces DeepSeek and OpenAI competitors
By Ben Turner published
Chinese cloud giant Alibaba says that its Qwen2.5-Max artificial intelligence model outperformed its rivals at OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek.

DeepSeek stuns tech industry with new AI image generator that beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3
By Patrick Pester published
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released a new image generator, Janus-Pro-7B, which the company says is better than competitors.

New glowing molecule, invented by AI, would have taken 500 million years to evolve in nature, scientists say
By Patrick Pester published
An artificial intelligence model has created a new protein that researchers say would have taken 500 million years to evolve in nature — if nature were capable of producing such a thing.

Scientists propose making AI suffer to see if it's sentient
By Conor Purcell published
A new study shows that large language models make trade-offs to avoid pain, with possible implications for future AI welfare.

Chinese researchers just built an open-source rival to ChatGPT in 2 months. Silicon Valley is freaked out.
By Ben Turner published
DeepSeek-R1, a new reasoning model made by Chinese researchers, completes tasks with a comparable proficiency to OpenAI's o1 at a fraction of the cost.

AI can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified
By Owen Hughes published
Scientists say AI has crossed a critical 'red line' after demonstrating how two popular large language models could clone themselves.

AI could crack unsolvable problems — and humans won't be able to understand the results
By Ehsan Nabavi published
AI promises to accelerate scientific discovery, but if scientists aren't careful public trust may be left behind.
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