Development on the first DeepSeek R1 clone might have started with the announcement of the Open-R1 open-source project.

One of the key advantages of using DeepSeek R1 or any other model on Azure AI Foundry is the speed at which developers can experiment, iterate, and integrate AI into their workflows,” says Asha Sharma,

The AI community is rightfully buzzing about the new model DeepSeek R1 and is racing to digest what it means. Created by DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that emerged from the High-Flyer hedge fund, their flagship model shows performance comparable to models in OpenAI’s o1 series on key reasoning benchmarks,