It seems DeepSeek is always on the news. And that’s for good reason. The model R1 was an exceptionally efficient reasoning model that shook the AI labs in the US
Till then, the US was the champion of the AI race. OpenAI, X, and other players seemed infallible, almost undefeatable. But DeepSeek proved them wrong.
The R1 was better at reasoning and could perform tasks with efficiency- it was cost and energy-effective.
It was a disruptor- and it embodied the word perfectly. But with OpenAI unveiling ChatGPT 4.5, Anthropic with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, X with Grok 3, and Alibaba’s Wan, the sheer magnitude of the competition has increased. And these new models are impressive. Claude’s latest model can code on a high level and self-reflect on its answers.
DeepSeek is competing on a dangerous field.
Now, Reuters reports that the tech giant is in the works to show the successor to R1 called the R2 (No confirmed news on the official name yet.)
While there has been no official news on it yet, the question is interesting: What will the R2 be able to do?
The possibilities are not endless. Here are some of our predictions: –
DeepSeek R2: Predictions
- The model will be able to self reflect on its answers and reason on its own. It might have agentic capabilities.
- It will improve its power capabilities and might show the other AI labs that intelligent systems should not always rely on heavy usage.
- The model may outperform the existing ones and display an advanced CoT-type intelligence.
Of course, these predictions are based on what the R1 can do, and there are chances that the model could do something extraordinary like its predecessors.