Dig deeper to strike AI gold


THE artificial intelligence (AI) race just got a whole lot more interesting. DeepSeek, a Chinese AI firm, recently unveiled its R1 model, developed at a fraction of the cost of its US rivals yet with similar impressive capabilities.

For perspective, it costs less than US$6mil to develop the Deepseek R1 Model compared with an estimated US$40mil to US$100mil for the Chat GPT-4 Model.

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