One year ago this week, Silicon Valley and Wall Street were shocked by the release of China's DeepSeek mobile app, which rivaled US-based large language models like ChatGPT by showing comparable performance on key benchmarks at a fraction of the cost while using less-advanced chips. DeepSeek opened a new chapter in the US-China rivalry, with the world recognizing the competitiveness of Chinese AI models, and Beijing pouring more resources into developing its own AI ecosystem.
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The DeepSeek research team has expanded their evaluation framework with a new benchmark collection designed specifically for formal theorem proving assessment. This includes ProverBench, a collection of 325 formalized problems.