VentureBeat February 6, 2025
Things are moving quickly in AI—and if you’re not keeping up, you’re falling behind.
Two recent developments are reshaping the landscape for developers and enterprises alike: DeepSeek’s R1 model release and OpenAI’s new Deep Research product. Together, they’re redefining the cost and accessibility of powerful reasoning models, which has been well reported on. Less talked about, however, is how they’ll push companies to use techniques like distillation, supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning (RL), and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to build smarter, more specialized AI applications.
After the initial excitement around the amazing achievements of DeepSeek begins to settle, developers and enterprise decision-makers need to consider what it means for them. From pricing and performance to hallucination risks and the importance...