By Brenda Goh and Eduardo Baptista SHANGHAI/BEIJING -Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released the first update to its hit R1 reasoning model in the early hours of Thursday, stepping up competition with U.

DeepSeek unveils an update to its successful R1 reasoning model, enhancing its capabilities in complex reasoning while reducing misinformation output. The upgrade boosts competition with U.S. AI firms like OpenAI.

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released an upgrade to its R1 reasoning model on Thursday, intensifying competition with US players such as OpenAI in the field of code generation. The new version, named R1-0528, was quietly launched on the developer platform Hugging Face without an official announcement or technical documentation.