Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released an updated version of its R1 reasoning model that performs well on a number of math and coding benchmarks. Some AI researchers speculate that at least a portion came from Google's Gemini family of AI.

Since the internet is filled with AI-generated content, it can be hard to tell where training data originally came from.

Key Takeaways DeepSeek’s R1-0528 update reduced hallucinations by 45–50% and now rivals Gemini 2.5 Pro in reasoning tasks.Developers claim R1-0528 mimics Gemini