Understanding DeepSeek R1

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What you'll learn

How DeepSeek R1 is architected

What contributes to remarkable performance of the model

What is next for Large Reasoning Models (LRMs)

Why this topic matters

DeepSeek-R1 achieves performance comparable to OpenAI-o1 across math, code, and reasoning tasks. The models are also open sources and made available to the community.

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Amir Feizpour

Founder @ Aggregate Intellect

Amir Feizpour is the founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist at Aggregate Intellect building a generative business brain for service and science based companies. Amir has built and grown a global community of 5000+ AI practitioners and researchers gathered around topics in AI research, engineering, product development, and responsibility. Prior to this, Amir was an NLP Product Lead at Royal Bank of Canada. Amir held a research position at University of Oxford conducting experiments on quantum computing resulting in high profile publications and patents. Amir holds a PhD in Physics from University of Toronto. Amir also serves the AI ecosystem as an advisor at MaRS Discovery District, works with several startups as fractional chief AI officer, and engages with a wide range of community audiences (business executives to hands-on developers) through training and educational programs. Amir leads Aggregate Intellect’s R&D via several academic collaborations.

Percy Chen

Phd Candidate @ McGill University


Percy is a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University, where he is supervised by Prof. Daniel Varro and Prof. Gunter Mussbacher. His research focuses on applying model-based techniques to enhance the reliability and robustness of machine learning systems. Percy’s work spans evaluating machine learning model quality for tasks like model generation, bug detection, and code summarization, with a keen interest in leveraging large language models for software engineering.

In addition to his academic pursuits, Percy works as an R&D Engineer at Aggregate Intellect through a Mitacs grant, contributing to practical innovations in AI and is an active contributor to Sherpa, an open-source framework aimed at making large language models more robust and user-friendly. He also serves as a part-time Research Associate at Huawei Waterloo Research Center.

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