DeepSeek， a one-year-old startup， revealed a stunning capability: It presented a ChatGPT-like AI model called R1， which has all the familiar abilities， operating at a fraction of the cost of OpenAI’s， Google’s or Meta’s popular AI models. The company said it had spent just $5.6 million training its newest AI model， compared with the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars US companies spend on their AI technologies. The Wall Street Journal first reported the ultra-low cost.
