https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/30/ai2-says-its-new-ai-model-beats-one-of-deepseeks-best/ *Ai2 says its new AI model beats one of DeepSeek’s best* Move over, DeepSeek. There’s a new AI champion in town — and they’re American. On Thursday, Ai2, a nonprofit AI research institute based in Seattle, released a model that it claims outperforms DeepSeek V3, one of Chinese AI company DeepSeek’s leading systems. Ai2’s model, called Tulu 3 405B, also beats OpenAI’s GPT-4o on certain AI benchmarks, according to Ai2’s internal testing. Moreover, unlike GPT-4o (and even DeepSeek V3), Tulu 3 405B is open source, which means all of the components necessary to replicate it from scratch are freely available and permissively licensed. A spokesperson for Ai2 told TechCrunch that the lab believes Tulu 3 405B “underscores the U.S.’ potential to lead the global development of best-in-class generative AI models.” “This milestone is a key moment for the future of open AI, reinforcing the U.S.’ position as a leader in competitive, open source models,” the spokesperson said. “With this launch, Ai2 is introducing a powerful, U.S.-developed alternative to DeepSeek’s models — marking a pivotal moment not just in AI development, but in showcasing that the U.S. can lead with competitive, open source AI independent of the tech giants.” Tulu 3 405B is available to test via Ai2’s chatbot web app, and the code to train the model is on GitHub and the AI dev platform Hugging Face. Get it while it’s hot — and before the next benchmark-beating flagship AI model comes along.