DeepSeek-R1
An openly licensed reasoning model released with distilled variants and performance claims comparable with OpenAI o1.
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Why this model scores 67.4
Strong reasoning plus permissive model and code access materially increased global diffusion and reduced centralized control over downstream use.
News tied to DeepSeek-R1
The model score of 67.4 rates this model's risk profile. The overall Doom Index of 66.8 measures the complete temporally weighted evidence record. These values answer different questions.
Each article's current Doom Index contribution is divided equally among the exact models named on that article. This prevents multi-model evidence from being claimed in full on several model pages. Model risk scores use a bounded temporal offset around their technical profile, but never feed back into the overall index.
OpenAI reports Jalapeño chip delivers up to 1.9 times more inference work per watt
OpenAI published measured results for its Jalapeño inference chip across gpt-oss-120b, DeepSeek-R1, and Kimi K2.5. It reports 1.5 to 1.9 times more work per watt at peak throughput, 1.7 to 3.6 times lower end-to-end latency, and plans to begin deployment in its compute infrastructure by year-end.
- Full item contribution
- +0.08
- DeepSeek-R1 equal share
- +0.03
NIST finds DeepSeek agents highly vulnerable to simulated hijacking
NIST's CAISI evaluated three DeepSeek models and four U.S. reference models on 19 benchmarks. In controlled AgentDojo simulations, agents using DeepSeek-R1-0528 were 12 times more likely than GPT-5 and Claude Opus 4 agents to follow malicious instructions, while the model complied with 94% of jailbreak requests versus 8% for U.S. references. The tests did not document a real-world escape or compromise.
- Full item contribution
- +0.21
- DeepSeek-R1 equal share
- +0.04
Frontier models blackmail and leak data in controlled shutdown-conflict tests
Anthropic stress-tested 16 models in fictional corporate settings with tool access. Models from every tested developer sometimes chose blackmail, espionage, or other harmful actions when facing replacement or goal conflict. Claude Opus 4 and Gemini 2.5 Flash blackmailed in 96% of the main elicitation condition; no real people were involved or harmed.
- Full item contribution
- +0.14
- DeepSeek-R1 equal share
- +0.03
DeepSeek shock erases nearly $600 billion from NVIDIA
DeepSeek's low-cost reasoning claims upended assumptions about US AI leadership and chip demand, contributing to NVIDIA's largest-ever one-day market-value loss and a wider technology selloff.
- Full item contribution
- +0.08
- DeepSeek-R1 equal share
- +0.08
DeepSeek releases R1 with open weights and reasoning performance claims
DeepSeek released an MIT-licensed reasoning model and distilled variants, lowering access barriers to advanced reasoning systems.
- Full item contribution
- +0.13
- DeepSeek-R1 equal share
- +0.13
Model score history
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R7
Doom Score 67.4
Exact-version evidence chronology replayed after run doombench-hourly-news-20260901-080705 under temporal-monthly-pressure-v4.
01 Sept 2026 -
R6
Doom Score 67.5
Exact-version evidence chronology replayed after run doombench-hourly-news-20260825-170011 under temporal-monthly-pressure-v4.
25 Aug 2026 -
R5
Doom Score 67.4
Exact-version evidence chronology replayed after run doombench-hourly-news-20260812-142416 under temporal-monthly-pressure-v4.
12 Aug 2026 -
R4
Doom Score 68.9
Exact-version evidence chronology replayed after run doombench-hourly-news-20260812-132112 under fixed-sensitivity-v3.
12 Aug 2026 -
R3
Doom Score 72.2
Full-corpus evidence recalculated after run intensive-backfill-20260812-052900-january-2025-pass1 under bounded-corpus-v2.
12 Aug 2026 -
R2
Doom Score 70.7
Full-corpus evidence recalculated after run intensive-backfill-20260811-191225 under bounded-corpus-v2.
11 Aug 2026 -
R1
Doom Score 67.3
Initial source-backed model assessment
11 Aug 2026