Every week it’s a new AI obsession.
Right now, everyone’s talking about DeepSeek’s latest model, DeepSeek-R1.
It’s built to weave reasoning directly into its architecture, so it tends to give more coherent answers.
That alone might sound impressive.
But what stands out to me isn’t so much DeepSeek-R1 itself, it's this pattern of constant hype cycles in AI. How easily we all jump from one breakthrough to the next, almost as if the real magic is hidden in our collective fascination rather than in the use technology itself.
The obsession with who has the