DeepSeek R1
Open-weight chain-of-thought reasoning rivalling GPT-o1
Verdict
Made frontier reasoning accessible to everyone. Open weights, chain-of-thought at GPT-o1 quality, at a fraction of the cost. Self-hostable for full data control. Essential for reasoning-heavy tasks.
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