This is far too soon after R1 to be a reaction. They were training this model before R1. If they stopped censoring the reasoning steps or (Yud forbid) open sour

This is far too soon after R1 to be a reaction. They were training this model before R1. If they stopped censoring the reasoning steps or (Yud forbid) open sourced it, that would be competition really working. But they won't.