Advanced Chinese “reasoning” model rivals Openai O1 -and It’s Free To Download

Unlike conventional LLMs, these SR models take extra time to produce answers, and this extra time often increases the benefit of tasks involving mathematics, physics and science. And this latest open model is to turn heads to apparently quickly catch up on Openai.

For example, Deepseek Reports to R1 surpassed Openais O1 on several benchmarks and tests including AIME (a mathematical reasoning test), Math-500 (a collection of word problems) and SWE-BENCH VERIFIED (a programming assessment tool). As we normally mention, AI -Benchmarks must be taken with a grain of salt and these results have not yet been confirmed independently.

Techcrunch Reports that three Chinese laboratories – Depseek, Alibaba and Moonshot AI’s Kimi– Have now released models, they say, Match O1’s capabilities, with Deepseek first preview of R1 in November.

But the new Deepseek model comes with a catch if it runs in Cloud-Hosted version– Being Chinese with origin, R1 will not generate answers to certain topics like Tiananmen Square or Taiwan’s autonomy as it should “embodies core socialist values,“According to Chinese Internet provisions. This filtration comes from a further moderation layer that is not a problem if the model is run locally outside China.

Even with the potential censorship, Dean Ball, an AI scientist at George Mason University, wrote on x“The impressive performance of Deepseeks distilled models (smaller versions of R1) means that very skilled rims will continue to spread far and be run on local hardware, far from the eyes of any top-down control regime.”