Minor changes to the name, such as using "R3" instead of "R2", are acceptable when determining the release. 

Does not have to be named R2 explicitly; would be whatever model that succeeds R1, likely model behind the deepseek-reasoner endpoint.

Important: V4 (thinking) would count as fulfilling the criterion above. V4 Instruct would not.

To count as released, the model must be accessible to some people outside DeepSeek. if it's banned in the US but releases in China this market would still resolve YES. If it is available through some API only this counts as a release.