Actual r1 is a base model by Deepseek with CoT added by them via RL. The distillations are other people's base models with RL used to add CoT to them. The 70b

Actual r1 is a base model by Deepseek with CoT added by them via RL. The distillations are other people's base models with RL used to add CoT to them. The 70b one is Llama that Deepseek has modified. As I understand it.