VentureBeat January 29, 2025
DeepSeek and its R1 model aren’t wasting any time rewriting the rules of cybersecurity AI in real-time, with everyone from startups to enterprise providers piloting integrations to their new model this month.
R1 was developed in China and is based on pure reinforcement learning (RL) without supervised fine-tuning. It is also open source, making it immediately attractive to nearly every cybersecurity startup that is all-in on open-source architecture, development and deployment.
DeepSeek’s $6.5 million investment in the model is delivering performance that matches OpenAI’s o1-1217 in reasoning benchmarks while running on lower-tier Nvidia H800 GPUs. DeepSeek’s pricing sets a new standard with significantly lower costs per million tokens compared to OpenAI’s models. The deep seek-reasoner model charges $2.19 per million...