Language Models that Play Chess and Explain Their Moves
Queen, a 4B-parameter chess-language model, reaches 2697 Elo via iterative distillation while explaining moves, beating frontier models with ~1000x fewer parameters.
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Queen, a 4B-parameter chess-language model, reaches 2697 Elo via iterative distillation while explaining moves, beating frontier models with ~1000x fewer parameters.
Queen, a 4B chess language model, reaches Grandmaster strength while explaining its moves and plans.

DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash, an open-weight 763B-parameter model with a novel causal encoder-decoder architecture, 1M context, vision input, and MIT license.
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