That's not an issue. DeepSeek R1 is massive but people still managed to distill and quantize it. They'll just do the same for this one.
Deepseek distilled it themselves using Qwen and Llama, right from the start.
People are reproducing the training for Deepseek R1.
Oh that's interesting, because they distilled only with 1 method, not both methods that were used on R1 (the one was reinforcement learning, the other supervised finetuning, I think only the former was used on the distillations). So there might be some room for improvement. I hadn't seen any third party distillations yet but I'll have a look.