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Unlike typical high-profile releases driven by marketing hype, Deepseek’s V3.1 was quietly dropped onto Hugging Face—one of the largest open-source AI repositories—without fanfare. Within hours, the AI community was abuzz, recognizing that this model could potentially rival GPT-5, which was then the gold standard in language models. Its remarkable performance on the Ader programming benchmark, scoring an impressive 71.6%—surpassing Claude Opus 4—spread rapidly, signaling a paradigm shift in open-source AI capabilities.