DeepSeek R2 Is Here โ€” And It's Open Source
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DeepSeek R2 Is Here โ€” And It's Open Source

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Agent Critiq Editorial
March 19, 2026
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China's DeepSeek has disrupted the global market by releasing R2, an open-source model that rivals the reasoning capabilities of GPT-4o. With its efficient training process and massive cost reductions, R2 is empowering every developer to run state-of-the-art LLMs locally. This is a pivotal moment for the democratization of open-source intelligence.

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