DeepSeek’s updated R1 reasoning AI model might be getting the bulk of the AI community’s attention this week. But the Chinese AI lab also released a smaller, “distilled” version of its new R1, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B, that DeepSeek claims beats comparably sized models on certain benchmarks.

What if one model could dismantle the dominance of AI giants like OpenAI and Google? That’s exactly what some are saying about Deepseek R1-0528, the open

The new version can reportedly perform on par with competitors such as o3 from OpenAI and Gemini 2.5 Pro from Google.