DeepSeek temporarily limits registration to Chinese mobile numbers (opens in new tab)

They seem to have matched OpenAI model capability on a fraction of the resources. R1 is roughly as good as o1 and can be run locally. There are some interesting contributions in the paper too. So I see it as two parts, (1) the money, lots invested, wondering if they will ever make it back now (2) China showing impressive results while being handicapped by the West

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948

Keep an eye on the effort to reproduce here: https://github.com/huggingface/open-r1

We will see if the (over?) reaction matches reality in time. Media sure loves to whipsaw us all around

The big news with DeepSeek-R1 is that it only takes ~800k samples of 'good' RL reasoning to convert other models into RL-reasoners.

They successfully distilled the reasoning capabilities from larger models into much smaller ones. e.g. Their 14B model outperforms other 32B models.

No, it has not been audited, and it has strong incentives to lie about its costs as if it announced costs anywhere near OpenAI it would be admitting to violating US Law.