She is the best candidate in China in AI’s career. Deepseek has just published an update of its R1 model (R1-0528). These improvements place China more efficient to date to the same level as the champions of AI models.
Unadpatnus, this update increases computer power and precision while maintaining a lower price to generate an answer. In several classifications, version R1-0528 of the IA is classified among the most efficient models to date, mostly American.
A rivalry with the great
To judge the abilities of an AI, we refer to performance tests (or a reference point), a wide range of evaluations where AI answers a series of questions in a given area. For example, AMA test (American invitational mathematics exam) will evaluate AI on mathematical reasoning on the same basis as a great mathematics competition for US high school students.
In Editions 2024 and 2025 of the AMA test, Depseek’s latest version reached second place between the main AI, just behind O3, one of the last versions of Chatgpt.
Therefore, in several performance tests, AI shows almost equal results with the best versions of Gemini (Google AI) and Chatgpt (OpenAi AI). In computer coding tests (with Liscodebench and Help tests) and science (with the GPQA diamond test), the Chinese model competes with its US competitors, although a little below.
Always at a lower cost
Where Deepseek surprises is that it exceeds the notes of its old version. “Compared to the previous version, the updated model has significant improvements in the management of complex reasoning tasks,” explains the company.
In terms of price, Depseek also knows how to stand out with a very low cost of resources compared to its competitors. For a million tokens (or tokens, used in the generation of several responses), the cost of AI is estimated at less than $ 1. By way of comparison, Gemini 2.5 is estimated at $ 3.44 for the same number of tokens. It is 1.93 dollars for the O4-Mini version of ChatgPT and $ 17.50 for version O3.
Despite his actions, Deepseek has responded to some controversies since its launch. Fear for its American counterparts, AI is subject to numerous limitations in Western countries and has been accused by the South Korean government to extort the data for the benefit of a Chinese company.
Source: BFM TV
