DeepSeek official clarification: R2 release rumors are false

Recently, media reported that artificial intelligence company DeepSeek may release its next-generation R2 model on March 17, which has sparked heated discussions on the Internet. However, DeepSeek official clarified the rumor in the user base, saying that "R2 is released as fake news."

It is understood that DeepSeek officially responded to this false news through its corporate consulting account. Although Reuters reported that three people familiar with the matter revealed that DeepSeek is accelerating the launch of the R2 model and said that the company originally planned to release a new model in May, but is currently working hard to launch it as soon as possible. People familiar with the matter pointed out that the R2 model is expected to have a significant improvement in code generation and multilingual reasoning capabilities.

At present, DeepSeek has not officially announced the specific release date and technical details of R2.