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DeepSeek R1 Release

Era: LLM Era · 2020s–Present

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released R1, an open-weight reasoning model, with code and weights under the MIT license, whose performance rivaled OpenAI’s o1. The release demonstrated that frontier capabilities could be achieved outside the US AI establishment and triggered a global re-evaluation of AI competition.

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  1. DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

    DeepSeek / arXiv · Source type: Paper

    DeepSeek-R1’s release, training approach, and reported evaluations.

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