DeepSeek AI is a Chinese AI startup that has been the talk of social media. If you haven’t heard about it yet, here’s why you should take notice.
US President Donald Trump had this to say:
So the release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman wrote:
DeepSeek’s R1 is an impressive model, particularly regarding what they’re able to deliver for the price.
However, he was quick to defend OpenAI’s approach, emphasizing greater computing power as a pillar of its success.
What impressed us at Befinity AI was the reasoning capability of DeepSeek’s R1 model.
Described in the paper as the “aha moment”:
A particularly intriguing phenomenon observed during the training of DeepSeek-R1-Zero is the occurrence of an “aha moment.” This moment occurs in an intermediate version of the model. During this phase, DeepSeek-R1-Zero learns to allocate more thinking time to a problem by reevaluating its initial approach. This behavior is not only a testament to the model’s growing reasoning abilities but also a captivating example of how reinforcement learning can lead to unexpected and sophisticated outcomes.
The “aha moment” highlights the model’s capability for self-improvement, a phenomenon I found the other models lacking in.
Through the process of reinforcement learning, the model was able to autonomously allocate more computational power to re-evaluate its initial approach.
Creating a feedback loop that refines its reasoning abilities over time.
Impressive indeed!
Over the next few days, I will be allocating more resources and space into reading and writing about DeepSeek AI.