The release of DeepSeek-R1, an open-source reasoning model, has disrupted the AI community by challenging the conventional wisdom of scaling laws and showcasing Chinese models' innovation and quality. DeepSeek-R1 incorporates incremental innovations into a pretraining framework and introduces an intermediate model, R1-Zero, trained using reinforcement learning. DeepSeek-R1 excels at reasoning tasks and has implications for Web3-AI, including the potential for decentralized networks to use reinforcement learning for model fine-tuning, synthetic reasoning dataset generation, decentralized inference for small distilled models, and improved reasoning data provenance. The release of DeepSeek-R1 signifies a significant milestone in generative AI and presents opportunities for Web3 to shape the future of AI in reasoning-focused applications.



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