“DeepSeek beats o1-preview on math and ties on coding; will release weights” by Zach Stein-Perlman
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DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview was announced today. Post. Chatbot. Chinese blogpost translation. DeepSeek says it will release the weights. The model appears to be stronger than o1-preview on math, similar on coding, and weaker on everything else. DeepSeek is Chinese. I'm not really familiar with the company. I thought Chinese companies were at least a year behind the frontier. Chinese companies tend to game benchmarks more than the frontier Western companies, but I think DeepSeek does this less than other Chinese companies. The blogpost also shows inference-time scaling, like o1:

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First published: November 20th, 2024

Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TcgpsgvLBBvvzGtiN/deepseek-beats-o1-preview-on-math-and-ties-on-coding-will)

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