What’s the story
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek has announced an update to its V3 model, releasing V3.1 for testing.
The new version comes with a longer context window, which means it can process more information for any given query.
This improvement could enable the model to hold longer conversations and recall information better than before.
What about its availability?
To note, DeepSeek has not shared much detail about the V3.1 AI model. The Chinese tech giant is also yet to release any documentation on major platforms such as Hugging Face yet.
Delay in launch of R2 model
The speed and popularity of DeepSeek’s models have given tough competition to US tech giants such as OpenAI.
The company’s R1 model had outperformed several Western competitors on standardized metrics, making headlines when it was launched earlier this year.
Fans are now waiting for the release of R2, the successor to R1.
Local media reports suggest that CEO Liang Wenfeng’s perfectionism and glitches are causing the delay in its launch.