Dr Kangwook Lee clears the air around the DeepSeek reasoning model causing an uproar in the tech community. Last month, a relatively unknown Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up made waves in the global tech industry with the world’s first open-source AI model to achieve “reasoning” – further fuelling the bottomless global appetite for AI while inviting both praise for its capabilities as well as accusations of theft from its key competitor. The world was quick to react to DeepSeek AI after it launched R1. Consumers drove up downloads for the start-up’s chatbot to top spots, while authorities viewed it with...