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DeepSeek-R1 paper published in Nature

DeepSeek-R1 paper published in Nature — claims that reasoning ability can be induced by pure reinforcement learning alone, without human-labeled reasoning trajectories. Reviewed by eight referees; the review reports and the authors' responses were published alongside it

Why it matters

The first frontier LLM to appear in a journal after formal peer review. A crack in the practice of relying on corporate technical reports

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Papernature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09422-z

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