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Reasoning Models
DeepSeek-R1 has been one of the most significant model releases since ChatGPT. After its release, the DeepSeek's app quickly rose to the top of Apple's most downloaded chart and NVIDIA saw a 17% stock decline. In this story, we cover DeepSeek-R1, OpenAI's o3-mini and Deep Research, and the policy implications of reasoning models.
DeepSeek-R1 is a frontier reasoning model. DeepSeek-R1 builds on the company's previous model, DeepSeek-V3, by adding reasoning capabilities through reinforcement learning training. R1 exhibits frontier-level capabilities in mathematics, coding, and scientific reasoning—comparable to OpenAI's o1. DeepSeek-R1 also scored 9.4% on Humanity's Last Exam—at the time of its release, the highest of any publicly available system.
DeepSeek reports spending only about $6 million on the computing power needed to train V3—however, that number doesn’t include the full [...]
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(00:13) Reasoning Models
(04:58) State-Sponsored AI Cyberattacks
(06:51) Links
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First published:
February 6th, 2025
Source:
https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-47-reasoning
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