DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale

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• Released 1 December 2025 ● Primary source[1]page header 2025/12/01 [3]Date: 2025-12-01

• Status AvailableWeights are still public on DeepSeek's Hugging Face organisation under the MIT License. Its API access ran only on a temporary endpoint until 2025-12-15 15:59 UTC. ● Primary source[2]License [1]API Update

• Variant of DeepSeek-V3.2DeepSeek calls it a high-compute, experimental variant of DeepSeek-V3.2. ● Primary source[2]Introduction [4]section 3, DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale

• Change · Reasoning Trained only on reasoning data with a reduced length penalty in reinforcement learning, plus the DeepSeekMath-V2 dataset and reward method for mathematical proofs.Compared with DeepSeek-V3.2 ● Primary source[4]section 3, DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
• Change · Tool use Does not support tool calling.Compared with DeepSeek-V3.2 ● Primary source[2]Introduction
• Change · Availability Offered only through a temporary API endpoint until 15 December 2025, not in the DeepSeek app or web chat.Compared with DeepSeek-V3.2 ● Primary source[1]API Update

• Open weights YesMIT License for the repository and the weights. ● Primary source[1]Open Source Release [2]License
• Access API, Open-weights downloadAPI-only at launch (not in the app or web chat), through a temporary endpoint without tool calls that ran until 2025-12-15. ● Primary source[1]

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