I come to the conclusion that DeepSeek-R1 is worse than a 5 years-old version of GPT-2 in chess… The very recent, state-of-art, open-weights model DeepSeek R1 is breaking the 2025 news, excellent in many benchmarks, with a new integrated, end-to-end, reinforcement learning approach to large language model (LLM) training. I am personally very excited about this model, and I’ve been working on it in the last few days, confirming that DeepSeek R1 is on-par with GPT-o for several tasks. Yet, ...
