https://www.reuters.com/world/china/deepseek-r2-launch-stalled-ceo-balks-progress-information-reports-2025-06-26/
>DeepSeek R2 launch stalled as CEO balks at progress, The Information reports
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>June 26 (Reuters) - Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has not yet determined the timing of the release of its R2 model as CEO Liang Wenfeng is not satisfied with its performance, The Information reported on Thursday, citing two people with knowledge of the situation.
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>R2, a successor to DeepSeek's wildly popular R1 reasoning model, was planned for release in May with goals to produce better coding and reason in languages beyond English, Reuters reported earlier this year.
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>Over the past several months, DeepSeek's engineers have been working to refine R2 until Liang gives the green light for release, according to The Information.
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>However, a fast adoption of R2 could be difficult due to a shortage of Nvidia server chips in China as a result of U.S. export regulations, the report said, citing employees of top Chinese cloud firms that offer DeepSeek's models to enterprise customers.
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>A potential surge in demand for R2 would overwhelm Chinese cloud providers, who need advanced Nvidia chips to run AI models, the report said. [...]