After the Chinese company DeepSeek released its AI reasoning model, R1, at a competitive price last month, the value of stocks around the world dropped by over $1 trillion. This caused a big change in the stock markets.People who know about the company say that DeepSeek in Hangzhou is already working faster to create its next model, R2. They want to release it before May, which was not the original plan, because R1 was a success.
DeepSeek is confident that R2 will improve coding performance and expand its reasoning abilities to include languages other than English, although specific release dates have not been provided.The accelerated schedule for R2’s release has not been previously reported.DeepSeek did not respond when contacted for comment.
R1, which was created using less powerful Nvidia chips but is still comparable to models created by US tech giants that cost hundreds of billions of dollars, is still having an influence on rivals.
“The release of DeepSeek’s R2 model could be a game-changer for the AI sector,” said Vijayasimha Alilughatta, COO of Zensar, an Indian tech services company. DeepSeek’s ability to create affordable AI models could encourage companies worldwide to speed up their own initiatives, potentially disrupting the current dominance of a few major players.
The US government, which sees leadership in AI as a national priority, is likely concerned about the release of R2.The release of R2 may also invigorate Chinese authorities and businesses, many of which claim to have already started integrating DeepSeek’s models into their offerings.
