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Reasoning Models

DeepSeek-R1 has been one of the most significant model releases since ChatGPT. After its release, the DeepSeek's app quickly rose to the top of Apple's most downloaded chart and NVIDIA saw a 17% stock decline. In this story, we cover DeepSeek-R1, OpenAI's o3-mini and Deep Research, and the policy implications of reasoning models.

DeepSeek-R1 is a frontier reasoning model. DeepSeek-R1 builds on the company's previous model, DeepSeek-V3, by adding reasoning capabilities through reinforcement learning training. R1 exhibits frontier-level capabilities in mathematics, coding, and scientific reasoning—comparable to OpenAI's o1. DeepSeek-R1 also scored 9.4% on Humanity's Last Exam—at the time of its release, the highest of any publicly available system.

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DeepSeek reports spending only about $6 million on the computing power needed to train V3—however, that number doesn’t include the full [...]

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Outline:

(00:13 ) Reasoning Models

(04:58 ) State-Sponsored AI Cyberattacks

(06:51 ) Links

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First published:

February 6th, 2025

Source:

https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-47-reasoning

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