That design was trained in part using their unreleased R1 "thinking" model. Today they've launched R1 itself, together with an entire family of new designs obtained from that base.

There's a lot of stuff in the brand-new release.

DeepSeek-R1-Zero appears to be the base model. It's over 650GB in size and, like most of their other releases, is under a clean MIT license. DeepSeek caution that "DeepSeek-R1-Zero experiences obstacles such as limitless repetition, bad readability, and language mixing." ... so they also launched:

DeepSeek-R1-which "includes cold-start information before RL" and "attains efficiency equivalent to OpenAI-o1 across math, code, and thinking jobs". That a person is likewise MIT licensed, and is a similar size.

I do not have the capability to run designs bigger than about 50GB (I have an M2 with 64GB of RAM), so neither of these 2 models are something I can quickly play with myself. That's where the brand-new distilled models are available in.

To support the research study community, we have open-sourced DeepSeek-R1-Zero, DeepSeek-R1, and six thick designs distilled from DeepSeek-R1 based upon Llama and Qwen.

This is a fascinating flex! They have actually models based on Qwen 2.5 (14B, 32B, Math 1.5 B and Math 7B) and Llama 3 (Llama-3.1 8B and Llama 3.3 70B Instruct).

Weirdly those Llama models have an MIT license connected, higgledy-piggledy.xyz which I'm uncertain works with the underlying Llama license. Qwen designs are Apache certified so possibly MIT is OK?

(I likewise just noticed the MIT license files state "Copyright (c) 2023 DeepSeek" so they may need to pay a little bit more attention to how they copied those in.)

Licensing aside, these distilled models are interesting beasts.

Running DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-GGUF

Quantized variations are currently beginning to reveal up. So far I've attempted simply one of those- unsloth/DeepSeek-R 1-Distill-Llama-8B-GGUF launched by Unsloth AI-and it's actually fun to have fun with.

I'm running it utilizing the combination of Ollama, LLM and the llm-ollama plugin.

First I brought and ran the model using Ollama itself:

This downloads around 8.5 GB of model data and starts an interactive chat user interface.

Once the model has been brought, LLM can speak with it as well. I choose utilizing LLM for experiments because it logs everything to SQLite for later expedition.

I set up the plugin and ran it like this:

Each response begins with a ... pseudo-XML tag containing the chain of idea used to help produce the action. For "a joke about a pelican and a walrus who run a tea space together" that started like this:

Okay, so I require to come up with a joke about a pelican and a walrus running a tea space together. Hmm, that's a fascinating mix. Let me think of how these 2 characters may communicate in an amusing circumstance.

First, let's consider their attributes. Pelicans are understood for their long beaks and Webbed feet, frequently seen near the beach or water. Walruses have big teeth, thick fur, and they're typically discovered in colder climates, like icebergs or snowy locations. So, combining these two into a tea space setting is already a funny image.

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It then thought for 20 paragraphs before the joke! Here's the complete transcript and here's the output at the end, after the tag:

The Joke:

A pelican and a walrus decide to open a quaint little tea space together. The walrus, with its big size, has a hard time to discover comfy chairs, so it sits on the table by accident, overturning the teapot. Meanwhile, the pelican, attempting to assist, utilizes its beak to put saucers on the table, triggering a few spills.

After a series of humorous mishaps, the walrus searches for and states with a grin, "This isn't so fishy anymore." The pelican smirks and says, "Maybe not, but we do have a great deal of krill in our tea!"

Explanation:

- Setup: Pelican and Walrus run a not likely tea room. Their sizes cause comedic mayhem.

• Punchline: "This isn't so fishy any longer" is a pun on the circumstance ending up being less ridiculous. The follow-up joke presents "krill," a play on words that connects into both marine life ("fish") and tea, making it funny while fitting the style.
  
  So yeah, the joke is dreadful. But the process of getting there was such an interesting insight into how these brand-new models work.
  
  This was a fairly little 8B design. I'm anticipating attempting out the Llama 70B version, which isn't yet available in a GGUF I can run with Ollama. Given the strength of Llama 3.3 70B-currently my favourite GPT-4 class design that I've worked on my own machine-I have high expectations.
  
  Update 21st January 2025: I got this quantized variation of that Llama 3.3 70B R1 distilled model working like this-a 34GB download:
  
  Can it draw a pelican?
  
  I tried my traditional Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bike prompt too. It did refrain from doing extremely well:
  
  It aimed to me like it got the order of the components incorrect, so I followed up with:
  
  the background ended up covering the remainder of the image
  
  It believed some more and pipewiki.org provided me this:
  
  Just like the earlier joke, the chain of believed in the transcript was much more fascinating than completion outcome.
  
  Other ways to attempt DeepSeek-R1
  
  If you want to attempt the model out without setting up anything you can do so utilizing chat.deepseek.com-you'll need to produce an account (indication in with Google, utilize an email address or offer a Chinese +86 telephone number) and then choose the "DeepThink" choice below the prompt input box.
  
  DeepSeek use the design by means of their API, utilizing an OpenAI-imitating endpoint. You can access that through LLM by dropping this into your extra-openai-models. yaml setup file:
  
  Then run llm keys set deepseek and paste in your API secret, then utilize llm -m deepseek-reasoner 'prompt' to run triggers.
  
  This will not reveal you the thinking tokens, unfortunately. Those are served up by the API (example here) however LLM doesn't yet have a method to display them.