Hey fam! Meet R1, the new AI LLM from the Chinese mainland AI start-up DeepSeek that just hit the big leagues ✅ It’s the first ever large language model to be peer-reviewed in Nature 🎯
Launched in January, R1 is all about flexing those reasoning muscles – math, coding, you name it. And guess what? It’s budget-friendly, costing around $294K to train (plus $6 M for its foundation) vs. the tens of millions others drop 💸
Why it’s a game-changer:
- Open-weight & free to download on Hugging Face (10.9 M+ downloads 🎉)
- Learn-by-doing with pure reinforcement learning – it gets rewarded for correct answers 🔄
- Self-checks with group relative policy optimization for smoother results 🚀
Hugging Face’s Lewis Tunstall said it best: this open peer review sets a new standard for transparency, making it easier to spot risks and improve AI ethics 🌐
Now, researchers worldwide are using R1’s playbook to boost their own LLMs and explore new fields beyond coding and math. Looks like the AI world just got a major upgrade! 💡
Whether you’re a student stuck on your next assignment or a dev building the next big app, R1’s approach could be your secret sauce. Stay tuned – the future of AI reasoning just got a whole lot brighter! ✨
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DeepSeek's R1 sets benchmark as first peer-reviewed major AI LLM
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