After taking the world by storm with the debut of its R1 reasoning mannequin in January, Chinese language AI startup DeepSeek is reportedly trying to preserve the momentum by speeding its new R2 mannequin to market as shortly as potential, Reuters reviews.
DeepSeek at first deliberate to launch R2 in early Might, however sources aware of the corporate inform Reuters that DeepSeek desires to hurry up the schedule. Nonetheless, the sources didn’t present a brand new launch date for DeepSeek-R2, which has but to be introduced.
We don’t know a lot about DeepSeek’s subsequent AI mannequin but, however the Chinese language firm desires R2 to have improved coding abilities and cause in languages apart from English.
When DeepSeek-R1 launched, the complete business was stunned by the analysis paper that claimed the extremely refined mannequin was educated at a fraction of the price of OpenAI’s o1. The pushback was instant, although, as OpenAI posited that DeepSeek distilled ChatGPT to coach its mannequin, and Google known as DeepSeek’s claims “exaggerated.”
Nonetheless, many corporations have been fast to undertake the brand new mannequin, together with OpenAI investor Microsoft, which added DeepSeek-R1 to Azure AI Foundry and GitHub. You can too discover R1 within the Amazon Internet Companies (AWS) mannequin catalog.
With the arrival of GPT-4.5 nonetheless weeks away and GPT-5 probably months out, DeepSeek has an opportunity to shake up the market as soon as once more if R2 launches quickly.
