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DeepSeek claims its reasoning model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarks

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DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, has released an open version of its reasoning model R1, claiming performance comparable to OpenAI's o1 on certain benchmarks. The 671 billion-parameter model is available under an MIT license and through DeepSeek's API at significantly lower prices than o1, but faces content restrictions due to Chinese regulations.

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