The AI world was abuzz this week with the release of the DeepSeek R1 models, from Chinese AI lab DeepSeek. The free large language model is impressing the AI community for being one of the first free “reasoning” models that can be downloaded and run locally. One thing really caught people’s attention: it appears to beat OpenAI’s leading o1 reasoning models (which are not free or open) on many widely used benchmarks. Having an advanced, free reasoning model for developers to use any way they want...