Deepseek R1 0528 Qwen3 8b: benchmark coverage now distinguishes AIME 2024 and AIME 2025, including the published AIME 2025 result

The OnAirToday AI Progress Tracker recorded a verified change to Deepseek R1 0528 Qwen3 8b (version DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B): Benchmark coverage now distinguishes AIME 2024 and AIME 2025, including the published AIME 2025 result.

DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B is DeepSeek’s open-weight, text-only reasoning model, built on Qwen3-8B using reasoning distilled from DeepSeek-R1-0528. Its published evaluations emphasize mathematics, science and coding, with local deployment supported and independent validation still necessary for consequential outputs.

What changed in this review:

• Capability score 66 → 71
• Flaws and limitations updated
• Risks and threats updated

Teams building on Deepseek R1 0528 Qwen3 8b should confirm limits, pricing and benchmark coverage against the vendor's own documentation before relying on these figures.

The full profile — capabilities, benchmark citations, known flaws and risk guidance — is on the tracker at /ai-models/deepseek-r1-0528-qwen3-8b.

References:

• https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B
• https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B/blob/main/config.json
• https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1