DeepSeek R1 just caught up with OpenAI's o1 - There is no moat! What does this mean?

All right, so DeepSeq R1 just came out, and it looks like it has pretty much entirely caught up to OpenAI's O1 at least.

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, because, it's, including: So kind of one of the mantras that we've been saying out on the internet is there is no moat.

1. 01We have seen this with Google, which is about to release their reasoning model and so on and so forth
2. 02Now, it's still hotly debated which model is best
3. 03A lot of it, honestly, when people argue about which model is best, honestly seems to come down to personal preference and taste, which is really interesting