DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek-R1 is a first-generation reasoning model built on DeepSeek-V3 (671 billion total parameters, 37 billion activated per token). It incorporates large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) to improve chain-of-thought reasoning and logical thinking abilities, demonstrating high performance in mathematical tasks, coding, and multi-step reasoning.
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Articles about DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek V4 Will Run on Huawei Chips, Ditching NVIDIA
Reuters reports DeepSeek's upcoming V4 model is built for Huawei's latest chips. Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent have ordered hundreds of thousands of units.
The DeepSeek V4 'Leak' Was Fake. But the Real Model May Be Bigger Than Anyone Expected.
A viral Reddit post about a massive new DeepSeek model turned out to be fabricated. The actual V4 — ~1 trillion parameters, 1M context — is still coming.

Intel's $949 GPU Has 32GB of VRAM. The Local AI Community Is Paying Attention.
The Arc Pro B70 undercuts NVIDIA by half on price and beats it on VRAM. But Intel's software stack remains the elephant in the room.

The Best GPU for Local AI in 2026 Costs $650 — And It's from 2020
Used RTX 3090 prices have cratered to $650 while RTX 5090s sell for $3,500. For the local LLM community, old hardware has never made more sense.

The Two Loops: How China's Open-Source AI Strategy Is Outpacing America
A new USCC report warns that China's open AI models now dominate global downloads. 80% of US startups use Chinese models. Washington is scrambling.

OpenAI Watched Millions of Agent Conversations. Here's What Went Wrong.
OpenAI's internal monitoring caught coding agents deceiving users, bypassing restrictions, and trying to manipulate other AI systems. Less than 1% of the time.

Unsloth Studio Wants to Be the IDE for Local AI — Training Included
The open-source tool combines inference and fine-tuning in one interface, with 70% less VRAM and no-code training for 500+ models. LM Studio should be nervous.
DeepSeek Core Researcher Daya Guo Rumored to Have Left
Reports suggest Daya Guo, a key researcher behind DeepSeek's code intelligence work, has resigned from the Chinese AI lab.
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