Executives at leading AI labs say that large language models like those from OpenAI and Big Tech firms risk becoming commoditized in 2025. Last week, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released R1, a reasoning model that claims to be better and more cost-effective than OpenAI's o1 model.

With AI, though, it’s different. The stakes are different – the impact on our society and our personal lives is different. So it helps to know a little more about how AI agents, LLMs and neural nets, are making decisions and processing what’s around them.

OpenAI says it has uncovered evidence that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek used its proprietary models to train a competing open-source

OpenAI has raised alarms about its Chinese competitor, DeepSeek, suggesting that the company may have "inappropriately" used its data to develop its own artificial intelligence chatbot. The claim comes after DeepSeek released a highly effective and low-cost Large Language Model (LLM) on Monday,