Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has released an upgraded version of its reasoning model, DeepSeek R1, without fanfare—escalating competition in the global AI arms race.
The updated model was uploaded to Hugging Face, a popular AI model repository, rather than being launched through a formal announcement. It comes months after DeepSeek shook up the AI world with its original R1 model, which is open-source and free to use.
That initial release stunned markets earlier this year. The R1 model delivered performance that rivalled, and in…
