China Introduces Competitor to OpenAI’s “Thinking” Neural Network o1

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The Chinese lab DeepSeek has unveiled its own “thinking” neural network, DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview, which is designed to rival OpenAI’s o1.

These reasoning-capable neural networks can check themselves, spending more time considering the question. This helps avoid some of the traps that confuse regular models.

Similar to o1, DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview plans actions in advance and performs them before providing an answer, which can take several seconds in some cases.

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According to the developers, the Chinese AI model works on par with o1-preview from OpenAI, as confirmed by tests.

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However, the neural network struggles with the game of “Tic-Tac-Toe,” noted X user Paul Kalcraft.

Additionally, the AI is easy to hack and bypass its basic security measures. For example, a user named Pliny the Liberator managed to obtain a methamphetamine recipe.

As a reminder, in July, the Chinese company Kuaishou launched an AI model for generating Kling videos, available to anyone.