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deepseek-llm

deepseek-llm 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 1 variants 38k downloads/mo
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About

What deepseek-llm is

1. Introduction of Deepseek LLM Introducing DeepSeek LLM, an advanced language model comprising 7 billion parameters. It has been trained from scratch on a vast dataset of 2 trillion tokens in both English and Chinese. In order to foster research, we have made DeepSeek LLM 7B/67B Base and DeepSeek LLM 7B/67B Chat open source for the research community. 2. Model Summary deepseek-llm-7b-base is a 7B parameter model with Multi-Head Attention trained on 2 trillion tokens from scratch. - Home Page: DeepSeek - Repository: deepseek-ai/deepseek-LLM - Chat With DeepSeek LLM: DeepSeek-LLM 3. How to Use Here give some examples of how to use our model. Text Completion 4. License This code repository is licensed under the MIT License. The use of DeepSeek LLM models is subject to the Model License. DeepSeek LLM supports commercial use. See the LICENSE-MODEL for more details. 5. Contact If you have any questions, please raise an issue or contact us at service@deepseek.com.

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

Specifications

What it is

Makerdeepseek-ai
TypeLanguage models
Context4k tokens
Variants1
Runs withtransformers
Released2023-11-29
Popularity38k downloads / month
Likes227
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-llm-7b-baseBF16Weights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

Details

Languages, data & research

Tags

transformers pytorch llama text-generation text-generation-inference endpoints_compatible conversational deploy:azure

Licence

Commercial licence needed

The weights are open but its licence 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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