DeepSeek R1 LLM Outshines Rival Reasoning Models

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On January 20, 2025, Chinese AI company DeepSeek launched the DeepSeek R1 large language model. This model is designed to mimic human reasoning and provide advanced analytical capabilities.

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Chinese AI Lab DeepSeek Unveils DeepSeek R1

Compared to its competitors, OpenAI o1-mini, GPT-4o, and Claude 3.5, DeepSeek R1 has demonstrated superior performance in chemistry, coding, and mathematics.

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This LLM Stuns the Global Tech Community

The model has secured a 96.3 percentile rank compared to human participants, achieving exceptional benchmarks in MATH-500 (Pass@1) and GPQA Diamond (Pass@1).

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DeepSeek R1’s Impressive Results

This state-of-the-art model has a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, similar to its company’s predecessor model, DeepSeek V-3—an open-source language model with 671 billion parameters.

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The Architecture Behind This LLM

The DeepSeek R1 model includes two versions, DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1. The former has only been trained in reinforcement learning without supervised fine-tuning.

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DeepSeek R1 Versions

Although the DeepSeek R1 model is not fully open-source, it offers significantly lower token prices than OpenAI. This makes the model a more affordable option for researchers and developers.

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DeepSeek R1’s Economical Token Pricing