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Perplexity Open Sources R1 1776, a version of the Deepseek R1 model which, according to the CEO of Aravind Srinivas, was “post-training to eliminate Chinese censorship”– But shortly after his release, attention turned to the compliance of the model with the laws of Chinese censorship.
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