DeepSeek's R1 Upgrade Nears Top-Tier LLMs
DeepSeek today rolled out DeepSeek-R1-0528, an upgraded version of its R1 large language model that it says now rivals OpenAI's O3 and Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Gemini 2.5 Pro.
The China-based AI firm credited enhanced post-training algorithmic optimizations and a beefed-up compute pipeline for boosting reasoning accuracy from 70% to 87.5% on complex logic tasks, while cutting hallucination rates and improving vibe coding performance. DeepSeek highlighted benchmark wins in mathematics, programming and general inference, positioning R1-0528 as a peer to leading Western models.
This release follows DeepSeek's recent open-source launch of Prover-V2, a specialist reasoning engine, and comes amid a flurry of Chinese AI advancementsAlibaba's (NYSE:BABA) Qwen 3 and Baidu's (NASDAQ:BIDU) Ernie 4.5/X1, both touting hybrid reasoning firepower. DeepSeek argues that its combination of open-development ethos and performance parity gives it a unique edge in global AI research.
Investors and partners should care because DeepSeek-R1-0528's near-par with top-tier LLMs could accelerate enterprise deployments in Asia and beyond, drive cloud-compute demand, and intensify competition in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. As Western and Chinese models vie for supremacy, benchmarks like these will shape strategic bets on talent, infrastructure and cross-border AI collaborations.
With R1-0528 available now on Hugging Face, markets will watch for adoption by startups and research labs, potential licensing deals, and further advances in DeepSeek's open-source roadmap.
This article first appeared on GuruFocus.
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Open and log into your Google Drive or Google Photos account on your desktop. 2. Select the files or photos you want to download. 3. Click the three stacked dots in the upper-right corner of your screen. 4. Click Download. Note that Gmail will download messages as a .eml file. 5. Once the items are downloaded and moved onto your hard drive, feel free to delete them from your account and empty your trash bins. You can download emails from Gmail in much the same way, but you have to download your emails one at a time. While this makes downloading your emails more tedious, it's still possible. Here's how to download your emails from Gmail. 1. Open and log into your Gmail account on your desktop. 2. Click on the email you want to download. 3. Click the three stacked dots in the upper-right corner of your screen. 4. Click Download. Your emails will download as a .eml file. 5. 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The last time San Francisco's vacancy rate dropped was in the fourth quarter, when it declined 0.2% — the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to JLL. 'People wanted to count us out, and I think that was a bad bet,' said Mayor Daniel Lurie. 'We're seeing all of this because the ecosystem is better here in San Francisco than anywhere else in the world, and it's really an exciting time.' Five years ago, AI leases in San Francisco's commercial real estate market were relatively sparse, with just two leases in 2020, according to JLL. But that's since soared to 167 leases in the first quarter of 2025. The office footprint for AI companies has also surged, making up 4.8 million square feet in 2024, up from 2.6 million in 2022, JLL said. 'You need the talent base, you need the entrepreneur ecosystem, and you need the VC ecosystem,' said Alexander Quinn, senior director of economic research for JLL's Northwest region. 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OpenAI began as a nonprofit research lab in 2015 and the people involved found their way to San Francisco for the same reason why earlier generations of technologists and people pushing the frontier in the United States are drawn to the city, said Chris Lehane, OpenAI's vice president of global affairs in an interview. 'It is a place where, when you put out an idea, no matter how crazy it may seem at the time, or how unorthodox it may seem ... San Francisco is the city where people don't say, 'That's crazy,'' Lehane said. 'They say, 'That's a really interesting idea. Let's see if we can do it.'' Databricks, valued at $62 billion, is also expanding in San Francisco. Databricks in March announced it will move to a larger space in the Financial District next year, boosting its office footprint to 150,000 square feet and more than doubling its San Francisco staff in the next two years. It pledged to hold its annual Data + AI Summit in the city for five more years. The company holds 57,934 square feet at its current San Francisco office in the Embarcadero, according to CoStar, which tracks real estate trends. 'San Francisco is a real talent magnet for AI talent,' said Databricks' co-founder and vice president of engineering Patrick Wendell. 'It's a beautiful city for people to live and work in and so we really are just following where the employees are.' Several years ago, Wendell said his company was considering whether to expand in San Francisco. At the time, it was unclear whether people would return to offices after the pandemic, and some businesses raised concerns about safety and cleanliness of San Francisco's streets. Wendell said his company decided to invest more in the city after getting reassurances from city leaders. 'People are seeing an administration that is focused on public safety, clean streets and creating the conditions that also says that we're open for business,' said Lurie, who defeated incumbent mayor London Breed last November by campaigning on public safety. 'We've said from day one, we have to create the conditions for our arts and culture, for our small businesses and for our innovators and our entrepreneurs to thrive here.' Laurel Arvanitidis, director of business development for San Francisco's Office of Economic and Workforce Development, said that the city's policy and tax reforms have helped attract and retain businesses in recent years, including an office tax credit that gives up to a $1-million credit for businesses that are new or relocating to San Francisco. On Thursday, Lurie announced on social media that cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is opening an office in San Francisco after leaving the city four years ago. 'We are excited to reopen an office in SF,' Coinbase Chief Executive Brian Armstrong wrote in response to the mayor's social media post. 'Still lots of work to do to improve the city (it was so badly run for many years) but your excellent work has not gone unnoticed, and we greatly appreciate it.' Santa Clara-based Nvidia is also looking for San Francisco office space, according to a person familiar with the matter who declined to be named. The news was first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. Nvidia, which also has California offices in San Dimas and Sunnyvale, declined to comment. 'It's because of AI that San Francisco is back,' Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang said last month on the Hill & Valley Forum podcast. 'Just about everybody evacuated San Francisco. Now it's thriving again.' But San Francisco still has challenges ahead, as companies continue to push workers to return to the office. While the street environment has improved, it will be critical for the city to keep up the progress. Lurie said his administration inherited the largest budget deficit in the city's history and they have to get that under control. His administration's task is to make sure streets and public spaces are clean, safe and inviting, he said. 'We have work to do, there's no question, but we are a city on the rise, that's for sure,' Lurie said. Times staff writer Roger Vincent contributed to this report.
