Is DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B SOTA? No

Q: Is DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B state of the art?

No. Best recorded rank is #170 in Reasoning. As of Oct 14, 2026, DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B from DeepSeek. Best recorded rank is #170 in Reasoning. Last listed at #170 in Reasoning on 2025-01-20.

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Is DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B state of the art?

No.Best recorded rank is #170 in Reasoning.

As of Oct 14, 2026, DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B from DeepSeek. Best recorded rank is #170 in Reasoning. Last listed at #170 in Reasoning on 2025-01-20.

Computed automaticallyas of Oct 14, 2026methodology v1.0confidence: low

ReasoningNot SOTA · #170#170 · 0d ScienceNot SOTA · #170#170 · 0d

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Last listed at #170 in Reasoning on 2025-01-20.

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Scores come from the latest ingested snapshot

Source	Score	Date	Type	Receipt
GPQA Diamond DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B	0.44696969696969696 0.4–0.5	2025-01-20	INDEP.	snap_e03cddec1fbb

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Category	This model	Why
Reasoning	Not SOTA · #170	Last listed at #170 in Reasoning on 2025-01-20.
Science	Not SOTA · #170	Last listed at #170 in Science on 2025-01-20. That board does not award a crown.