Deepseek has released the full version of r1-lite, which we also covered in our blogpost. Aside from the official benchmark numbers, the model is remarkably strong and on par with o1, i.e., it currently is one of the best models available, both open and closed. The model is available under MIT, a license that DeepSeek has used for their experimental models like Janus in the past. Alongside the R1 and R1-Zero models, which are MoE, they also distilled the models with SFT onto Qwen and Llama of various sizes, with the appropriate licenses matching the original models. These models are incredibly strong for their size and continue the trend of distilling big models onto smaller ones, just like it has been done by the other, western labs for quite some time now. The distilled models are trained with SFT only - in the report, they mentioned that applying RL yields even further gains.
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