When DeepSeek R1 was released, it shocked the AI world. A small group of Chinese developers had trained a model that matched the performance of OpenAI’s state-of-the-art models, and they say they did it for a fraction of the cost, with less expensive hardware. But shortly after its release, attention turned to how compliant the model was with Chinese censorship laws. Much like Meta’s Llama 3 model, DeepSeek R1 model was released as open-source software, anyone could take the model and post-tra...