While DeepSeek can point to common benchmark results and Chatbot Arena leaderboard to prove the competitiveness of its model, there's nothing like direct use cases to get a feel for just how useful a new model is.

Deepseek R1 just dropped, and it’s shaking up the AI world in a way we haven’t seen since the launch of ChatGPT. In this video, I’ll break it down in the simplest way possible—especially if you're new to AI.

Development on the first DeepSeek R1 clone might have started with the announcement of the Open-R1 open-source project.