The great sage of modern baseball, Yogi Berra, said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” His observation holds true in all walks of life, especially in the world of high technology. In November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, and showed us how generative AI can shatter our notions of what machine learning can do. Last month, the Chinese startup DeepSeek released its latest AI model, R1, and shook up the world of the shakers. R1 has, reportedly, outperformed the best AI