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DeepSeek LLM

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DeepSeek LLM is a general-purpose language model series from DeepSeek, released as open weights in 7B and 67B sizes, each as a Base and a Chat model, under the DeepSeek Model License, which permits commercial use. DeepSeek says the models were trained from scratch on 2 trillion English and Chinese tokens; the model cards also link to DeepSeek's chat website. [1]1. Introduction; 2. Model Downloads; 8. License [2]Chat With DeepSeek LLM link Primary source

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  • Released No DeepSeek prose states the release day. The earliest commit of the official repository, dated 2023-11-29, already contains the README that says the 7B and 67B Base and Chat models are released to the public. The technical report followed on arXiv on 2024-01-05. Primary source[3]commit date and README, 2. Model Downloads
  • Status AvailableWeights of all four models are still public and ungated on Hugging Face under the DeepSeek Model License. Primary source[2] [4] [1]2. Model Downloads
      • Open weights YesReleased under the DeepSeek Model License, which permits commercial use; intermediate base-model checkpoints were also published on AWS S3. Primary source[1]2. Model Downloads; 8. License [5]
      • Context window 4096 tokensGiven as sequence length (README) and context length (report) for all four models. Primary source[1]2. Model Downloads, Sequence Length [6]Table 2, Context Length
      • Parameters 67 billionThe 67B models; the 7B variants carry their own figure. Primary source[1]1. Introduction [5]2. Model Summary
      • Access Open-weights download, consumer app Primary source[1]badges; 2. Model Downloads [2]Chat With DeepSeek LLM link

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      Variants

      DeepSeek LLM 7B Base

      Same dates as DeepSeek LLM.

      • Variant Inline variant in this record. Primary source[1]2. Model Downloads [4]

      Also known as: deepseek-llm-7b-base

      Differs in:

      • Parameters: 7B Evidence not assessed [4]2. Model Summary

      DeepSeek LLM 7B Chat

      Same dates as DeepSeek LLM.

      • Variant Inline variant in this record. Primary source[1]2. Model Downloads [7]

      Also known as: deepseek-llm-7b-chat

      Differs in:

      • Parameters: 7B Evidence not assessed [7]2. Model Summary

      DeepSeek LLM 67B Base

      Same dates as DeepSeek LLM.

      • Variant Inline variant in this record. Primary source[1]2. Model Downloads [5]

      Also known as: deepseek-llm-67b-base

      DeepSeek LLM 67B Chat

      Same dates as DeepSeek LLM.

      • Variant Inline variant in this record. Primary source[1]2. Model Downloads [2]

      Also known as: deepseek-llm-67b-chat

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