DeepSeek's open-weights model ranks #2 in reasoning, reshaping AI competition

DeepSeek released an open-weights reasoning model that ranks #2 among open-weights reasoning models, according to benchmarks cited in the article. The model operates on 27% of the FLOPs (computational power) compared with DeepSeek-V3.2 and uses 83.9 GiB, positioning it as a notably efficient alternative in the reasoning model category.