DeepSeek now appears to have debunked one of the tech world's holiest scriptures, achieving similar success with far fewer and far older chips.
"It marks the end of US dominance of the AI race," says Toby Walsh, chief scientist at the AI Institute of the University of New South Wales.
"It's like running the four-minute mile," he says.
"When Roger Bannister first ran the four-minute mile, it demonstrated it was physically possible."
I'm yet to try DeepSeek but it seems extremely promising. What this means for ChatGPT and the other LLM based companies will be very interesting.
If we see more open source models that have the same usefulness as ChatGPT then its commercial viability is diminished. Why pay for it?