--- title: HOLY SMOKES! A new, 200% faster DeepSeek R1-0528 variant... description: German consulting firm TNG Technology Consulting has released DeepSeek-TNG R1T2 Chimera, a variant of DeepSeek's R1-0528 model that delivers 90% of the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/holy-smokes-a-new-200-faster-deepseek-r1-0528-variant-appears-from-german-lab-tng-technology-cons-novcaaibj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: HOLY SMOKES! A new, 200% faster DeepSeek R1-0528 variant appears from German lab TNG Technology Consulting GmbH | daily.dev og:description: German consulting firm TNG Technology Consulting has released DeepSeek-TNG R1T2 Chimera, a variant of DeepSeek's R1-0528 model that delivers 90% of the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/holy-smokes-a-new-200-faster-deepseek-r1-0528-variant-appears-from-german-lab-tng-technology-cons-novcaaibj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NOvcaAIbJ.png og:image:alt: HOLY SMOKES! A new, 200% faster DeepSeek R1-0528 variant appears from German lab TNG Technology Consulting GmbH og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # HOLY SMOKES! A new, 200% faster DeepSeek R1-0528 variant appears from German lab TNG Technology Consulting GmbH **[Venture Beat](https://daily.dev/sources/venturebeat)** · 7 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary German consulting firm TNG Technology Consulting has released DeepSeek-TNG R1T2 Chimera, a variant of DeepSeek's R1-0528 model that delivers 90% of the original's performance while generating responses with 60% fewer tokens. This efficiency gain translates to 200% faster inference and lower compute costs. The improvement comes from TNG's Assembly-of-Experts (AoE) method, which merges weight tensors from multiple pre-trained models without additional training. The model combines reasoning capabilities from three DeepSeek variants and is available under MIT license on Hugging Face, though it has limitations for function calling and tool use. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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