Perplexity uncensors DeepSeek-R1 with open-source R1 1776
Perplexity just open-sourced R1 1776, a post-trained variant of DeepSeek-R1 designed to remove political censorship without sacrificing performance. Trained with Nvidia NeMo on a curated 40,000-prompt dataset, it delivers factual answers across sensitive topics while keeping original math and reasoning strengths intact.