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In the wake of the release of o1, there’s been an explosion of reasoning models from rival AI labs — not just Google. In early November, DeepSeek, an AI research company funded by quant traders, launched a preview of its first reasoning model, DeepSeek-R1. That same month, Alibaba’s Qwen team unveiled what it claimed was the first “open” challenger to o1.
Bloomberg reported in October that Google had several teams developing reasoning models. Subsequent reporting by The Information in November revealed that the company has at least 200 researchers focusing on the technology.