The guys at Hugging Face have been working on an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1, although I don’t know how they circumvent Chinese censorship (it’s also censored if you use Deepseek locally).

Another open source AI model beats DeepSeek with 86% less data.

All this Deepseek hysteria is just based on a simple press statement released by the company. It’s another totally over-hyped model with false claims that comes with even more disadvantages than most of its rivals.