IBM recently announced that its AI development platform watsonx.ai now supports the DeepSeek-R1 distilled versions of the Llama 3.18B and Llama 3.370B models. DeepSeek optimizes multiple Llama and Qwen variants using knowledge distillation technology, leveraging data from the R1 model to further enhance model performance. On the watsonx.ai platform, users can utilize DeepSeek in two ways.