DeepSeek accelerating launch of successor AI model, Reuters says

DeepSeek is accelerating the launch of its successor to its January R1 model, Eduardo Baptista, Julie Zhu and Fanny Potkin of Reuters reports, citing three people familiar with the company. The company originally planned to release R2 in May, but now wants it out as early as possible, hoping the new model will produce better coding and be able to reason in languages beyond English, the sources added. DeepSeek is a Chinese-built large-language open-source model that claims to rival offerings from Microsoft-backed (MSFT) OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta Platforms (META) but using a much smaller budget.