The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which claims that R1 matches or even surpasses OpenAI’s ChatGPT o1 on multiple key benchmarks but operates at a fraction of the cost.
According to Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, the assistant can help with tasks such as booking an Uber, finding dinner reservations, playing an old YouTube video, playing music, getting directions, ...