DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview was announced today. Post. Chatbot. Chinese blogpost translation.

DeepSeek says it will release the weights.

The model appears to be stronger than o1-preview on math, similar on coding, and weaker on everything else.

DeepSeek is Chinese. I'm not really familiar with the company. I thought Chinese companies were at least a year behind the frontier. Chinese companies tend to game benchmarks more than the frontier Western companies, but I think DeepSeek does this less than other Chinese companies.

The blogpost also shows inference-time scaling, like o1:

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