
‘AI’s Sputnik moment’: China-based DeepSeek’s open-source models may be a real threat to the dominance of OpenAI, Meta, and Nvidia
US-based companies have been at the forefront of the AI revolution, but now it looks like a new challenger has emerged. China-based DeepSeek is just over a year old, but the startup has released an open-source AI model called R1 that seems to have the rest of the industry worried. DeepSeek was founded in 2023…