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academic-ds

academic-ds is an open-weight language model from ByteDance-Seed, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

LLMs ByteDance-Seed 1 variants 35k downloads/mo
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About

What academic-ds is

This is a 9B model whose architecture is deepseek-v3, trained from scratch using 350B+ tokens from fully open-source, English-only datasets. It is designed for development and debugging purposes within the open-source community.

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

MakerByteDance-Seed
TypeLanguage models
Parameters (lead)9.4B
Variants1
Runs withtransformers
Released2025-04-09
Popularity35k downloads / month
Likes16
LicenceOpen weights

How it works

How language models work

Your prompttext / messagesTransformerattention over tokensNext-token loopgenerate + streamResponsetext · tool callsA language model reads your tokens and predicts the next one, again and again, streaming the reply back.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
academic-ds-9B9.4BBF16~21.5 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys academic-ds for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (academic-ds below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"academic-ds","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

en

Tags

transformers safetensors deepseek_v3 text-generation conversational custom_code en text-generation-inference endpoints_compatible

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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