DeepSeek has made waves in the AI community with the release of its distilled R1 AI model, the DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B, which showcases impressive performance on challenging benchmarks while being significantly less resource-intensive. This smaller model, built on Alibaba’s Qwen3-8B foundation, has outperformed Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash in the AIME 2025 math challenge and closely matched Microsoft’s Phi 4 reasoning model on the HMMT test. What sets the DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B apart is its ability to run on a single GPU, making advanced AI accessible to researchers and developers without the need for extensive computational resources.