I'm going to guess that you didn't read the paper...
I believe this is the paper that's getting the US stock market to freak out, while
Not that I blame you, it's absolutely stuffed with absurd hyperbolic language, e.g. DeepSeek-R1-Zero naturally emerged with numerous powerful and interesting reasoning behaviors [...] DeepSeek-R1-Zero exhibits super performance on reasoning benchmarks. It's hard to read with your eyes rolling constantly.
this seems to be the one you're referring to. Correct?
Here's a comparison for those that are interested since they do different things.
Real Programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.