In its own words on X: "Unravel the mystery of AGI with curiosity. Answer the essential question with long-termism." DeepSeek posted the DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview launch from @deepseek_ai on Nov 20, 2024.

How many views did DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview get on X?

3,218,648 views. DeepSeek posted it from @deepseek_ai on Nov 20, 2024, and the post has 4,374 likes, 770 reposts, 441 quotes, 256 replies and 1,961 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.

Was DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview a big launch on X?

It ranks #239 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 92% of them and 18x the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.18%, against a median of 0.48%.

How did DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview do on X?

DeepSeek posted the DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview launch from @deepseek_ai on Nov 20, 2024. The post has 3,218,648 views, 4,374 likes, 770 reposts, 441 quotes and 256 replies, an engagement rate of 0.18%. It ranks #239 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.

DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview launch post media — Nov 20, 2024 · 3,218,648 views

18xthe median launch175K median views
#239of the launches we trackout of 2839
2.7xits own following1,211,669 followers

Views: 3.2M
Likes: 4.4K
Reposts: 770
Quotes: 441
Replies: 256
Bookmarks: 2K

What would these views cost to buy?

At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 3.2M views would cost $322K. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $80K.

The post reached about 2.7 views for every follower of @deepseek_ai.

What launched?

DeepSeek launched DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview, a reasoning model with o1-preview-level performance on AIME and MATH, available at chat.deepseek.com.

How does it compare with other launches?

DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview has more views than 92% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 18x the median launch's 175K views.

DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview3.2M
Median tracked launch175K
#1: xAI Voice Cloning204M

Views on the launch post, read from X on Nov 14, 2026.

Metric	DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview	Median launch
Views	3.2M	175K
Engagement rate	0.18%	0.48%
Views per follower	2.7	2.8
Quote posts	441	27
Saves per 10K views	6.1	14.2

Other DeepSeek launches we track: DeepSeek-R1 (12.6M views), DeepSeek-V4-Flash API (9.6M views), DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 (8.4M views), DeepSeek Harness v0.1 (4.5M views), DeepSeek-V4-Pro (3.1M views), DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp (2.8M views). All 11 DeepSeek launches, or every ai launch.

Against launches like it

A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.

Compared with	Launches	Median views	This one	Rank
AI launches	1,462	264.5K	12x	#152
Accounts over 1M followers	224	2.2M	1.4x	#91
Image launch posts	620	143.1K	22x	#47
Every launch	2,839	175K	18x	#239

What this launch shows

From an account with 1.2M followers, the post reached 2.7 times the account's following. Launches from accounts over 1M followers reach a median of 0.5 times their following, so this one went about 4.9 times further than usual for its size. It ranks 91 of 224 launches from accounts that size.

It drew 441 quote posts, 1.4 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. Fewer people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.

The first line is "🚀 DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview is now live: unleashing supercharged reasoning power!". The post runs 36 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with an image: image launches have a median of 143.1K views, against 186.1K for the rest.

There is a link in the post. Launch posts with a link have a median of 160.8K views in the tracker.

It went out on a Wednesday (UTC). Wednesday launches have a median of 178.8K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.

Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.

Questions about this launch

What is DeepSeek?: In its own words on X: "Unravel the mystery of AGI with curiosity. Answer the essential question with long-termism." DeepSeek posted the DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview launch from @deepseek_ai on Nov 20, 2024.
How many views did DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview get on X?: 3,218,648 views. DeepSeek posted it from @deepseek_ai on Nov 20, 2024, and the post has 4,374 likes, 770 reposts, 441 quotes, 256 replies and 1,961 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
Was DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview a big launch on X?: It ranks #239 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 92% of them and 18x the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.18%, against a median of 0.48%.
What would 3.2M views on X cost to buy?: At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 3.2M views would cost $322K. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $80K.

Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/deepseek-r1-lite-preview, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.