While DeepSeek can point to common benchmark results and Chatbot Arena leaderboard to prove the competitiveness of its model, there's nothing like direct use cases to get a feel for just how useful a new model is.

A fourth report by AI security firm Protect AI saw no vulnerabilities in the official version of DeepSeek-R1 as uploaded on the AI repository HuggingFace. However, the researchers found unsafe fine-tuned variants of DeepSeek models that have the capability to run arbitrary code upon model loading or have suspicious architectural patterns.

DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence provider that develops open-source LLMs. R1, the latest addition to the company’s model lineup, debuted last week. The release of the LLM caused a broad selloff in AI stocks that sent Nvidia Corp.’s shares plummeting 17% on Monday, along with many other technology stocks.