DeepSeek Unveils 3V Model, The Most Powerful Open-Source AI Yet

The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released its latest open-source model, DeepSeek-V3, this week. The startup claims that its new large model includes 671B parameters and can perform better than frontier models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Anthropic’s Claude-Sonnet-3.5.

s can interact with the model through the official website, read the company’s previous version released in November and has enhanced capacities and API compatibility.

🚀 Introducing DeepSeek-V3!

Biggest leap forward yet:
⚡ 60 tokens/second (3x faster than V2!)
💪 Enhanced capabilities
🛠 API compatibility intact
🌍 Fully open-source models & papers

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— DeepSeek (@deepseek_ai) December 26, 2024

“We present DeepSeek-V3, a strong Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model with 671B total parameters with 37B activated for each token,” wrote the company on GitHub. “Comprehensive evaluations reveal that DeepSeek-V3 outperforms other open-source models and achieves performance comparable to leading closed-source models.”

Many s, organizations, and companies have congratulated DeepSeek on its achievement. “Congratulations on the stellar release!” wrote Hugging Face on X, “The model checkpoints and a detailed report – truly Christmas is here!”

Andrej Karpathy—former researcher at OpenAI and head of AI at Tesla—shared a few thoughts too. “DeepSeek (Chinese AI co) making it look easy today with an open weights release of a frontier-grade LLM trained on a joke of a budget (2048 GPUs for 2 months, $6M).”

DeepSeek-V3 is now one of the strongest open-source AI models in the market and its paid API remains among the most affordable in the market.