China’s DeepSeek quietly releases upgraded R1 AI model, ramping up competition with OpenAI

DeepSeek’s latest update is a serious threat to ChatGPT and Google — here’s why

DeepSeek's R1-0528 update delivers major gains in reasoning, coding, and efficiency, and it's quickly becoming a serious rival to OpenAI and Google.

China's DeepSeek Unveils R1-0528 Model, Challenging U.S. AI Giants

While most of the world was still asleep Thursday, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek quietly dropped an upgrade to its R1 model—R1-0528. It was released on developer hub Hugging Face.No splashy press release, no grand claims. Just a stealthy update that’s making some serious waves.So, how good is it? According to the LiveCodeBench leaderboard—developed by AI heavyweights from UC Berkeley, MIT, and Cornell. What’s The Innovation?DeepSeek’s latest vers…

Chinese EV exec says China rollout of Tesla's self-driving tech is a 'DeepSeek moment' for autonomous vehicles

The release of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving platform in China gave the carmaker to test its autonomous driving software against that of local Chinese companies, XPeng President Brian Gu said. Comparing the two products was like a “DeepSeek” moment for autonomous vehicles because it put U.S. and Chinese tech up against each other. U.S. and Chinese autonomous vehicle companies finally got the chance to compete against one another in a head-to-head ba…

The DeepSeek R1 update proves it's an active threat to OpenAI and Google

This week, DeepSeek released an updated version of its R1 model on HuggingFace, reigniting the open-source versus closed-source competition. The updated version, called DeekSeek-R1-0528, has 685 billion parameters, an upgrade from January's version, which had 671 billion. Unlike OpenAI and Google's models, which are famously closed-source, DeepSeek's model weights are publicly available. According to the benchmarks, the R1-0528 update has improv…

DeepSeek R1 AI can now run on a single GPU

The next big thing from DeepSeek isn't here yet. That's DeepSeek R2, which is in development and should bring notable performance improvements. But like OpenAI, Google, and other AI firms, the Chinese startup continues to upgrade the models it released publicly in recent months. DeepSeek R1 is one of those models. It’s a reasoning AI that DeepSeek released in early 2025, shaking up the AI stock market. In case you forgot, DeepSeek managed to tra…

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