DeepSeek R1 API First Look: How This Open-Source Model Outperforms OpenAI
DeepSeek-R1-671B, a 671-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 37B activated parameters per token, has emerged as a compelling open-source alternative to OpenAI’s proprietary APIs. Early benchmarks reveal its edge in mathematical reasoning (97.3% MATH-500 accuracy vs. GPT-4-o1’s 96.8%) and coding efficiency…