All their rivals offer free models that “reason” and Gemini 2.0 is the last example

All the companies and startups of AI in the United States were so quiet going to their own. And suddenly Deepseek R1 arrived and became a true existential threat to Silicon Valley. The Chinese startup offered a model of reasoning as good as that of its competitors, but also offered it for free (and Open Source!). What has Silicon Valley did? Apply the story, of course.

GEMINI 2.0 Razon Free for All. Enough that you visit the Official Gemini website and display the “Gemini” menu from the upper left to check it. You can already use 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental (its reasoning model) both in normal mode and in “collaborative” mode with services such as YouTube or Maps. And it is totally free.

Microsoft Copilot and Think Deper. Microsoft Copilot’s “Think Deper” mode is also available for free In this service of the company. As we explainThink Deper is actually OpenAi O1, but before Microsoft had to pay the subscription of Copilot Pro ($ 20 per month) to enjoy access to that option. The appearance of Deepseek R1 caused it to also offer it in a grauita way (although with a more limited number of consultations).

OPENAI O1. The company led by Sam Altman didn’t want to be left behind and less than a week ago presented O3-minia reasoning model that in addition to being especially powerful is available in the Grauita version of chatgpt. We can activate the “Reason” button so that when we ask something, the O3 reasoning capabilities are put into operation.

Deepseek R1 and perplexity. Perplexity’s search engine is gradually offering new options. In fact, a few days ago those responsible announced that On the perplexity website We could activate the Reasoning-R1 model based on Deepseek R1, but housed in the US (to avoid suspicions with possible data theft). They even give the option of opting for the Reasoning-O3-mini model, which is the same offered in Chatgpt. Again for free (although limited), but that stands out for being a comfortable way to try Deepseek R1 in its most powerful version.

And the rest? This first batch of reasoning models seems to have taken on foot changed to the rest of the great contenders in the AI ​​segment. Anthropic, who is still a reference with Claude, has not launched a reasoning model at the moment. He has not done so Apple, who goes to his own pace.

Meta has not launched anything in this regard despite offering a flame as a clear reference of the Ia Open Source model. And Elon Musk seems to be very busy, because Xai is still working In Grok And for the moment there is no news about a potential variant of reasoning. The only remarkable alternative for the moment is Doubao-1.5-Prothe reasoning model fresh by Bytedance, although it is not available as simple as its competitors.

The competition benefits users. The impact of Deepseek R1 on the AI ​​segment has been spectacular as we see. When Openai launched O1 In September 2024 he did it by raising him as a very advanced option but also face: only the subscribers of his services could access it in a limited way. Four months later we are using models that rival O1 but that are totally free and that we can use with more and more options. They are great news for users, which at least for now are benefiting from all that rivalry between these companies.

The AI ​​that reasons every time is better and cheaper (or free). A graph Created by Shawn Wang (@swyx) and published in his Newsletter, Latent Space, shows a clear evolution of AI models. In that graph you see how its capacity (measured at LMSYS points, a well -known ranking of AI models) is confronted with its cost per million tokens (ratio 3: 1 entry: exit). Here the right and the right is a model, the better, and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking seems to be especially well positioned, but this type of graph is changing very quickly. Again, more good news for us, users.

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