One Year Since the “DeepSeek Moment”

The article reflects on the one-year anniversary of DeepSeek's R1 model release, analyzing how it catalyzed the growth of China's open source AI ecosystem by lowering technical, adoption, and psychological barriers, leading to strategic realignments among Chinese AI companies.

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This is the first blog in a series that will examine China’s open source community’s historical advancements in the past year and its reverberations in shaping the entire ecosystem. Much of 2025’s progress can be traced back to January’s “DeepSeek Moment”, when Hangzhou-based AI company DeepSeek released their R-1 model.
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