The AI search firm Perplexity routinely lets users try out state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) on its site, but the company moved quickly to put Chinese company DeepSeek’s new R1 model front and center in its user interface. That offers users a chance to find out what the buzz is all about, without sending their data through the DeepSeek app, which is hosted in China. 

While some AI thought leaders such as Thrive Capital’s Josh Kushner, Scale AI’s Alexander Wang,........

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