DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1 is an open-source reasoning model developed by Chinese AI company DeepSeek, released in early 2025 and distinguished by its strong performance at unusually low cost . The model builds on DeepSeek V3—released December 2024 and praised by Andrej Karpathy—and was trained through a multi-stage process involving a precursor called R1 Zero, cold-start data construction, and reinforcement learning, with the full technical methodology disclosed in a detailed paper titled "Incentivizing Reasoning Capability" . In benchmark evaluations, R1 surpassed OpenAI's o-series on most metrics except GPQA, and its release catalyzed broad industry adoption including a partnership with LuCheng and Huawei Ascend to offer inference APIs on domestic Chinese compute . The model's open weights and training transparency enabled others to distill its reasoning capabilities into smaller models, a step ZhenFund's analysis credited with amplifying its impact beyond academia into wider public use .
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