PYMNTS.com February 3, 2025
The pace of progress across the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape in the past year has been enormous.
Large, general-purpose models like OpenAI’s GPT series, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude have dominated the headlines and enterprise use cases alike. These powerhouses, designed to handle a vast array of tasks across multiple domains, have set a high bar for what AI can do.
That all changed last week when the Chinese competitor DeepSeek shocked the world with its capabilities — and its comparatively low cost. For example, OpenAI charges API customers $60 to output a million o1 tokens, while DeepSeek only charges $2.19, making it nearly 27 times cheaper.
Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun said in a post on LinkedIn that...
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