Coming soon — a fully open reconstruction of Deepseek-R1

The Deepseek-R1 model has managed to attract a lot of attention in a short time, especially because it can be used commercially without restrictions.

Now, developers at Hugging Face are trying to reconstruct the generative AI (genAI) model from scratch and develop an alternative to Deepseek-R1 called Open-R1 based on open source code. Although Deepseek is often referred to as an open model, parts of it are not completely open.

“Ensuring that the entire architecture behind R1 is open source is not just about transparency, but about unlocking its full potential,” developer Elie Bakouch, of Hugging Face, told Techcrunch.

In the long run, Open-R1 could make it easier to create genAI models without sharing data with other actors.