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Last week, the global tech landscape was rocked by a groundbreaking announcement from Chinese company DeepSeek. The firm stunned the world by releasing its open-source R1 model, a move that not only overshadowed OpenAI’s efforts but also redefined what’s possible in artificial intelligence. The R1 model has already outperformed OpenAI’s $200 GPT-4 model in reasoning tasks, surpassed Anthropic’s Claude Sonet, and even outshone Google’s Gemini on key benchmarks. But what’s truly remarkable is how it has passed the “vibe test” for countless users across the internet — as long as you avoid asking it about April 15, 1989.