DeepSeek unveils one of the first AI models to rival OpenAI’s o1

Chinese AI company DeepSeek on Wednesday unveiled DeepSeek-R1, which reportedly matches OpenAI’s latest model, o1. It is a reasoning model, meaning it fact-checks itself before churning out a result. Consequently, it avoids some of the mistakes that AI models usually make.  R1 can analyze tasks, plan, and perform consecutive actions to arrive at an answer.