DeepSeek R1 after minor update approached OpenAI O3 level

DeepSeek company released an update for its R1 language model. Despite developers calling it “minor”, many users note substantial improvements. They report that the model’s reasoning has become noticeably deeper and longer, approaching the level of O3 from OpenAI – one of the most powerful models on the market.

Simply no words! Screenshots have even appeared online where the model demonstrates continuous reasoning for longer than 20 minutes. Well, this is a significant performance leap. The update announcement was made through the company’s official account on Chinese social network WeChat, and you can test the new capabilities right now on the official website deepseek.com.

There are no official performance tests yet that could confirm user claims about reaching O3 level. But the expert community is already eagerly awaiting benchmark publications to get an assessment of the new update. If rumors are confirmed and DeepSeek R1 has indeed achieved performance comparable to OpenAI’s O3, this is really cool. I think that if R1 after a simple update approached O3 level, then the future DeepSeek R2 version may open an era of truly “thinking” systems capable of maintaining deep analysis at a level comparable to human experts. Exciting and alarming.