Recent developments in AI technology highlight the capabilities of the DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B model. Groq Inc. announced that testing by Toolhouse AI indicated that the DeepSeek-r1-distill-llama-70b, powered by Groq, is the most effective option for LLM tool use and function calling. Additionally, AidfulAI noted that many local setups labeled as 'DeepSeek R1' are actually running Llama/Qwen models that have been fine-tuned using DeepSeek's reasoning technique. The DeepSeek R1 base model, which operates on a $2,000 EPYC server with 512 GB of memory, offers notable improvements in capability and results. Furthermore, the speculative decoding version of the DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B is now available on Groq for developers, enhancing speed and efficiency for instant reasoning tasks. Other versions of open weights models fine-tuned on the outputs of DeepSeek R1 have also been released, providing users with more accessible and faster reasoning capabilities.