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DeepSeek-R1-Lite Release 2024/11/20

🚀 DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview is now live: unleashing supercharged reasoning power!

🔍 o1-preview-level performance on AIME & MATH benchmarks.

💡 Transparent thought process in real-time.

🛠️ Open-source models & API coming soon!

🌐 Try it now at http://chat.deepseek.com

🌟 Impressive Results of DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview Across Benchmarks!

🌟 Inference Scaling Laws of DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview

Longer Reasoning, Better Performance. DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview shows steady score improvements on AIME as thought length increases.

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