DeepSeek invented the whole reasoning paradigm and keep pushing for innovation. I hope they get the success they deserve.

OpenAI released their first reasoning model (o1-preview) https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-o1-preview/ several months before DeepSeek's R1 https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948

CoT, was being studied using GPT-2, so...who invented hot water first?