DeepSeek is rushing to get its next-gen R2 model out sooner than expected

DeepSeek at first planned to launch R2 in early May, but sources familiar with the company tell Reuters that DeepSeek wants to speed up the schedule. However, the sources didn’t provide a new release date for DeepSeek-R2, and the company has yet to announce it.

We don’t know much about DeepSeek’s next AI model yet, but the Chinese company wants R2 to have improved coding skills and reason in languages other than English.

When DeepSeek-R1 launched, the research paper, which claimed that the team trained the highly sophisticated model at a fraction of the cost of OpenAI’s o1, took the entire industry aback.

When DeepSeek-R1 launched, the research paper, which stated that the team trained the highly sophisticated model at a fraction of the cost of OpenAI’s o1, surprised the entire industry. The pushback was immediate, though, as OpenAI posited that DeepSeek distilled ChatGPT to train its model, and Google called DeepSeek’s claims “exaggerated.”

Nevertheless, many companies were quick to adopt the new model, including OpenAI investor Microsoft, which added DeepSeek-R1 to Azure AI Foundry and GitHub. You can also find R1 in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) model catalog.

With the arrival of GPT-4.5 still weeks away and GPT-5 potentially months out, DeepSeek has a chance to shake up the market once again if R2 launches soon.

Source: BGR

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