DeepSeek R1-0528 arrives in powerful open source challenge to OpenAI o3 and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The whale has returned. After rocking the global AI and business community early this year with the January 20 initial release of its hit open source reasoning AI model R1, the Chinese startup DeepSeek — a spinoff of formerly only locally well-known Hong Kong quantitative analysis firm High-Flyer Capital Management — has released DeepSeek-R1-0528, a significant update that brings DeepSeek’s free and open model near parity in reasoning capabilities with proprietary paid models such as OpenAI’s o3 and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro This update is designed to deliver stronger performance on complex reasoning tasks in math, science, business and programming, along with enhanced features for developers and researchers. Like its predecessor, DeepSeek-R1-0528 is available under the permissive and open MIT License, supporting commercial use and allowing developers to custom ... Read full article.