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DeepSeek R1 Paper Expanded to 86 Pages

Date: January 4, 2026
Company: DeepSeek
Category: Models & Research

Narrative

Complete training pipeline disclosed. Three-stage "Dev" process (Dev1, Dev2, Dev3) detailed. Monte Carlo Tree Search admitted to have failed. Full reproducibility documentation. Nature publication synchronized back to arXiv.

DeepSeek arXiv

Reality

Unprecedented transparency for frontier model. Negative results disclosed (MCTS failure saves community compute). Full technical details enable replication. Signals V4 model imminent (rumored mid-February Lunar New Year release focused on coding).

Implication

Prior art established for R1 techniques. Open-source community fully enabled. Research reproducibility breakthrough. Sets new standard for model transparency. V4 expected to pivot from pure reasoning to software engineering dominance.

Tags

  • deepseek
  • research
  • open-source
  • chinese-ai