DeepSeek V3.1: Chinese AI Challenges GPT-5

The Chinese company DeepSeek has announced its new artificial intelligence model, DeepSeek V3.1, which rivals GPT-5.

The announcement was made via a short message on WeChat. According to experts, DeepSeek V3.1 is cost-effective and highly capable, based on the DeepSeek-V3 architecture with improvements in reasoning, tool use, and coding.

The Aider Benchmark ranked DeepSeek V3.1 as the best among Chinese AI coding systems. DeepSeek V3.1 is designed to perform excellently on Chinese chips, such as those from Huawei.