Open-source DeepSeek-R1 uses pure reinforcement learning to match OpenAI o1 — at 95% less cost

VentureBeat January 20, 2025
Shubham Sharma

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, known for challenging leading AI vendors with open-source technologies, just dropped another bombshell: a new open reasoning LLM called DeepSeek-R1.

Based on the recently introduced DeepSeek V3 mixture-of-experts model, DeepSeek-R1 matches the performance of o1, OpenAI’s frontier reasoning LLM, across math, coding and reasoning tasks. The best part? It does this at a much more tempting cost, proving to be 90-95% more affordable than the latter.

The release marks a major leap forward in the open-source arena. It showcases that open models are further closing the gap with closed commercial models in the race to artificial general intelligence (AGI). To show the prowess of its work, DeepSeek also used R1 to distill six Llama and Qwen...

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