DeepSeek, a Chinese startup, released an updated version of its R1 reasoning AI model on Hugging Face Wednesday, following an announcement on WeChat. The original R1 model gained prominence earlier this year and rivaled models from OpenAI.
The updated R1 model is a “minor” upgrade, according to DeepSeek’s WeChat announcement. The model is available under a permissive MIT license, allowing for commercial use. The Hugging Face repository for the updated R1 model, identified as DeepSeek-R1-0528, consists of configuration files and weights, but lacks a description of the model itself.
The updated R1 model contains 685 billion parameters. Due to its size, the model likely requires specialized hardware beyond consumer-grade capabilities. DeepSeek’s technology has also garnered attention from regulators in the United States, with some arguing that it poses a national security risk.
