DeepSeek-R1

Permissive

DeepSeek · DeepSeek · Released 2025-01

671B total, 37B active (MoE)Text

The reasoning-focused sibling of DeepSeek-V3, released under a fully permissive MIT license, that triggered a wave of open reasoning-model distillation.

Strengths

  • +MIT license, unrestricted use including distillation
  • +State-of-the-art open reasoning benchmark results at release
  • +Spawned widely-used distilled variants down to 1.5B

Limitations

  • -671B total parameters require a multi-node GPU cluster to serve at full precision
  • -Long chain-of-thought output increases latency and token cost

License

MIT

use commercially with attribution niceties

Hardware

needs multi-GPU or datacenter hardware to run well

Links

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via Hugging Face

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