DeepSeek’s updated R1 reasoning AI model might be getting the bulk of the AI community’s attention this week. But the Chinese AI lab also released a smaller, “distilled” version of its new R1, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B, that DeepSeek claims beats comparably sized models on certain benchmarks.

DeepSeek updated its R1 reasoning AI, and released a more exciting, smaller R1 version that can run on just one GPU.

DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B is a smaller, faster, and more accessible AI model that still holds its own in complex reasoning tasks, especially math, making it a valuable tool for bo