Development on the first DeepSeek R1 clone might have started with the announcement of the Open-R1 open-source project.

All of a sudden, DeepSeek is everywhere. Its R1 model is open source, allegedly trained for a fraction of the cost of other AI models, and is just as good, if not better than ChatGPT. This lethal combination hit Wall Street hard,

Microsoft is bringing Chinese AI company DeepSeek’s R1 model to its Azure AI Foundry platform and GitHub today. The R1 model, which has rocked US financial markets this week because it can be trained at a fraction of the cost of leading models from OpenAI,