DeepSeek-V3.2

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• Released 1 December 2025 ● Primary source[1]page header 2025/12/01 [3]Date: 2025-12-01 [4]Model Overview [2]General Information: Release date

• Status AvailableWeights are still public on DeepSeek's Hugging Face organisation under the MIT License. In the DeepSeek API, deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner were routed to deepseek-v4-flash from 2026-04-24, and DeepSeek announced that both names would be discontinued on 2026-07-24. ● Primary source[5]License [2]Methods of distribution and licenses [3]Date: 2026-04-24

• Successor of DeepSeek-V3.2-ExpDeepSeek calls DeepSeek-V3.2 the official successor to V3.2-Exp. ● Primary source[1] [3]Date: 2025-12-01

• Change · Tool use Integrates thinking directly into tool use, which DeepSeek says is a first for its models, and supports tool use in both thinking and non-thinking modes.Compared with DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp ● Primary source[1]Thinking in Tool-Use
• Change · Training data Trained with synthesised agent data that DeepSeek says covers more than 1,800 environments and 85,000 complex instructions.Compared with DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp ● Primary source[1]
• Change · Other New chat template with a revised tool-calling format and a developer role reserved for search-agent use.Compared with DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp ● Primary source[5]Chat Template

• Input text ● Primary source[2]Model properties: Modalities
• Output text ● Primary source[2]Model properties: Modalities
• Feature Reasoning modeThinking and non-thinking modes, served as deepseek-reasoner and deepseek-chat. ● Primary source[3]Date: 2025-12-01 [1]
• Feature Tool useTool use in both thinking and non-thinking modes, including thinking inside tool use. ● Primary source[1]Thinking in Tool-Use [5]Chat Template
• Open weights YesMIT License for the repository and the weights. ● Primary source[1]Open Source Release [5]License [2]Methods of distribution and licenses
• Context window 128K tokens ● Primary source[2]Model properties: Context length [6]section 4.1
• Parameters 671B parameters, of which 37B are activated for each token ● Primary source[2]Model properties: Total model size
• Access API, consumer app, Open-weights download ● Primary source[1] [2]Methods of distribution and licenses

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