{"id":98121,"date":"2025-05-29T10:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/?p=98121"},"modified":"2025-05-29T10:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:34:15","slug":"deepseek-releases-update-to-r1-model-nears-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/deepseek-releases-update-to-r1-model-nears-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek Releases Update to R1 Model, Nears OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/category\/emerging-technologies\/artificial-intelligence\/\">artificial intelligence<\/a> startup DeepSeek has released an update to its R1 reasoning model, increasing pressure on U.S. rivals like OpenAI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The update, named R1-0528, was launched on developer platform Hugging Face in the early hours of Thursday. However, the company has not made an official public announcement or shared a detailed model description.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the quiet release, early results suggest strong performance. The LiveCodeBench leaderboard, a benchmark created by researchers at UC Berkeley, MIT, and Cornell, ranked the updated R1 model just behind OpenAI&#8217;s o4 mini and o3 in code generation. It also ranked ahead of xAI\u2019s Grok 3 mini and Alibaba\u2019s Qwen 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <strong>DeepSeek\u2019s R1-0528<\/strong> is now publicly available on Hugging Face<br>\u2022 Ranked closely behind top models from <strong>OpenAI<\/strong> on key benchmarks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloomberg first reported the update on Wednesday. According to the report, a <a href=\"https:\/\/chat.deepseek.com\/\">DeepSeek<\/a> representative revealed in a WeChat group that the company had completed a \u201cminor trial upgrade\u201d and invited users to begin testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move comes as global AI competition heats up. Google\u2019s Gemini has introduced discounted access tiers, while OpenAI recently released the o3 Mini, a lightweight model with reduced computing demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, DeepSeek is widely expected to launch a next-generation model. In March, Reuters reported that R2, a successor to the R1 line, was initially planned for release in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the same month, DeepSeek also upgraded its V3 large language model, highlighting its ongoing efforts to keep pace with industry leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though it remains relatively quiet about its releases, DeepSeek&#8217;s performance on recognized benchmarks signals growing competitiveness in the AI space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has released an update to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":98123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9617],"tags":[9901],"contributor":[9732],"class_list":["post-98121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-generative-ai","contributor-news-desk"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DEEPSEEK.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Lubna","author_link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/author\/lubna\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98121"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=98121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}