DeepSeek R1 Explained: Versions, Training, API Status, and Local Use

Published: November 7, 2026. DeepSeek R1 is DeepSeek’s first-generation reasoning-model family, built from DeepSeek-V3-Base and post-trained to spend more computation on multi-step problems in mathematics, coding, science, and logic. The original DeepSeek-R1 and the research-focused R1-Zero were released on January…




