Tech Crunch – Hugging Face researchers are trying to build a more open version of DeepSeek’s AI ‘reasoning’ model

Posted on January 28, 2025

Barely a week after DeepSeek released its R1 “reasoning” AI model — which sent markets into a tizzy — researchers at Hugging Face are trying to replicate the model from scratch in what they’re calling a pursuit of “open knowledge.” Hugging Face head of research Leandro von Werra and several company engineers have launched Open-R1, a […]