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Researchers at Hugging Face are working on the Open-R1 project to replicate DeepSeek’s R1 ‘reasoning’ AI model and make it fully open source. The R1 model, released by the Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, has gained attention for its superior performance and self-fact-checking ability. However, it lacks transparency due to undisclosed tools used in its creation. Hugging Face, led by Leandro von Werra, seeks to address this by open-sourcing all components of R1, including the training data. The project aims to foster collaboration and innovation in AI by providing a foundation for future open source reasoning models. The initiative has already garnered significant interest, with 10,000 stars on GitHub within three days.