March 11, 2011 - Blue Whale News reported that in response to the DeepSeek The rumor that the next-generation R2 model will be released on March 17th was responded to by DeepSeek's official corporate advisory account in a user group by saying, "Rumor denied: the R2 release is fake news."
As of 1AI's press release, DeepSeek has not officially announced the exact date of R2, technical details, etc. The news comes after Reuters reported that DeepSeek is accelerating the rollout of its R2 artificial intelligence model, which the company initially planned to launch in May but is now working to do so as soon as possible, three people familiar with the matter said. The new model is expected to generate better code and be able to reason in languages other than English, the people familiar with the matter said.