Computer scientist and AI expert Andrew Ng didn't explicitly mention the significance of R1 being an open source model, but highlighted how the DeepSeek disruption is a boon for developers, since it allows access that is otherwise gatekept by Big Tech.

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,

The AI community is rightfully buzzing about the new model DeepSeek R1 and is racing to digest what it means. Created by DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that emerged from the High-Flyer hedge fund, their flagship model shows performance comparable to models in OpenAI’s o1 series on key reasoning benchmarks,