DeepSeek R1 & Open-Source Reasoning: How Distillation Is Disrupting Enterprise LLM Costs
The landscape of artificial intelligence experienced a seismic shift with the release of DeepSeek R1. For over a year, frontier reasoning models were held hostage behind proprietary API paywalls. DeepSeek R1 proved that reinforcement learning (RL) without supervised fine-tuning (SFT) cold starts can unlock chain-of-thought (CoT) capabilities on par with top-tier commercial models.





















