Found at “Berkeley Researchers Replicate DeepSeek R1’s Core Tech for Just $30: A Small Model RL Revolution” on 2025-01-28 18:44:44 +01:00.

A Berkeley AI Research team led by PhD candidate Jiayi Pan has achieved what many thought impossible: reproducing DeepSeek R1-Zero’s key technologies for less than the cost of a dinner for two. Their success in implementing sophisticated reasoning capabilities in small language models marks a significant democratization of AI research.