DeepSeek, Reasoning Models, and the Future of LLMs

Beyond the speculation and hand-wringing over the Chinese AI model called DeepSeek lies a much more concrete technological reality: Reasoning models are the future of large language models. Beyond DeepSeek, other AI labs have committed to their development, and reasoning models currently top popular LLM leaderboards. In this video, a16z partners Guido Appenzeller and Marco Mascorro demystify how DeepSeek works and explain what the era of reasoning models means for artificial intelligence.