No R2 Model Release Planned This Month, Confirms DeepSeek Closer

August 13 news, according to tencent technology, recently the market once again rumors of the depth of the next generation of DeepSeek big model DeepSeek-R2 release news, the expected time window for August 15 to 30 days. In this regard, close to DeepSeek people said today that the news is not true, and confirmed that DeepSeek-R2 in August there is no release plan. According to 1AI, as early as the beginning of this year, there is news that the R2 model will be released on March 17, but the official denial. DeepSeek official has not yet formally announced the specific date of R2 and technical details. Previously, Reuters reported that three people familiar with the matter revealed that DeepSeek is accelerating the launch of its R2 artificial intelligence model, which the company initially planned to launch in May, but is now working to launch as soon as possible. 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.