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DeepSeek

DeepSeek is an open-weight language model from deepseek-ai, 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.

Licence fee required LLMs deepseek-ai 3 variants 1.4M downloads/mo
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About

What DeepSeek is

DeepSeek-V3.2: Efficient Reasoning & Agentic AI Introduction We introduce DeepSeek-V3.2, a model that harmonizes high computational efficiency with superior reasoning and agent performance. Our approach is built upon three key technical breakthroughs: 1. DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA): We introduce DSA, an efficient attention mechanism that substantially reduces computational complexity while preserving model performance, specifically optimized for long-context scenarios. 2. Scalable Reinforcement Learning Framework: By implementing a robust RL protocol and scaling post-training compute, DeepSeek-V3.2 performs comparably to GPT-5. Notably, our high-compute variant, DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, surpasses GPT-5 and exhibits reasoning proficiency on par with Gemini-3.0-Pro. - Achievement: 🥇 Gold-medal performance in the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) and International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). 3. Large-Scale Agentic Task Synthesis Pipeline: To integrate reasoning into tool-use scenarios, we developed a novel synthesis pipeline that systematically generates training data at scale. This facilitates scalable agentic post-training, improving compliance and generalization in complex interactive environments. We have also released the final submissions for IOI 2025, ICPC World Finals, IMO 2025 and CMO 2025, which were selected based on our designed pipeline. These materials are provided for the community to conduct secondary verification. The files can be accessed at assets/olympiadcases. Chat Template DeepSeek-V3.2 introduces significant updates to its chat template compared to prior versions. The primary changes involve a revised format for tool calling and the introduction of a "thinking with tools" capability. To assist the community in understanding and adapting to this new template, we have provided a dedicated encoding folder, which contains Python scripts and test cases demonstrating how to encode messages in OpenAI-compatible format into input strings for the model and how to parse the model's text output. A brief example is illustrated below: Important Notes: 1. This release does not include a Jinja-format chat template. Please refer to the Pyt

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

Specifications

What it is

Makerdeepseek-ai
TypeLanguage models
Parameters (lead)685.4B
Context160k tokens
Variants3
Runs withtransformers
Based ondeepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp-Base
Released2025-12-01
Popularity1.4M downloads / month
Likes4,177
LicenceCommercial licence needed

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
DeepSeek-V3.2685.4BBF16~1576.4 GBWeights ↗
DeepSeek-V3684.5BBF16~1574.4 GBWeights ↗
DeepSeek-V2235.7BBF16~542.2 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys deepseek-ai-deepseek for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (deepseek-ai-deepseek 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":"deepseek-ai-deepseek","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Tags

transformers safetensors deepseek_v32 text-generation conversational eval-results endpoints_compatible fp8 deploy:sagemaker deepseek_v3 custom_code text-generation-inference deepseek_v2

Papers

Licence

Commercial licence needed

The weights are open but mit needs a commercial agreement for business use. AxForge can arrange that licence and host the model for you — you pay AxForge, we settle with the model’s maker. Ask us for a quote. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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