DeepSeek-R1 claims to beat o1-preview AND will be open sourced

**DeepSeek** has released **DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview**, an open-source reasoning model achieving **o1-preview-level performance** on math benchmarks with transparent thought processes, showing promise in real-time problem-solving. **NVIDIA** reported a record **$35.1 billion** revenue in Q3 with **112% year-on-year data center growth**, driven by **Hopper** and **Blackwell architectures**, the latter offering **2.2x performance improvement**. **Google DeepMind** introduced **AlphaQubit**, a quantum computing system improving error correction and outperforming leading decoders, though challenges remain in scaling and speed. The AI community continues to focus on **reasoning models**, **benchmarking**, and **quantum error correction** advancements.