Development on the first DeepSeek R1 clone might have started with the announcement of the Open-R1 open-source project.

Microsoft has moved surprisingly quickly to bring R1 to its Azure customers.

Huawei announced that the distilled R1 AI model will be available via its ModelArts Studio which uses Ascend GPUs.

The AI community is rightfully buzzing about the new model DeepSeek R1 and is racing to digest what it means. Created by DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that emerged from the High-Flyer hedge fund, their flagship model shows performance comparable to models in OpenAI’s o1 series on key reasoning benchmarks,

All of a sudden, DeepSeek is everywhere. Its R1 model is open source, allegedly trained for a fraction of the cost of other AI models, and is just as good, if not better than ChatGPT. This lethal combination hit Wall Street hard,