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That design was trained in part using their unreleased R1 "reasoning" design. Today they have actually launched R1 itself, together with an entire household of new designs obtained from that base.
There's a whole lot of stuff in the new release.
DeepSeek-R1-Zero seems the base model. It's over 650GB in size and, like most of their other releases, is under a tidy MIT license. DeepSeek alert that "DeepSeek-R1-Zero encounters obstacles such as unlimited repeating, bad readability, and language blending." ... so they likewise launched:
DeepSeek-R1-which "integrates cold-start information before RL" and "attains efficiency comparable to OpenAI-o1 throughout math, code, and reasoning jobs". That one is also MIT accredited, and is a similar size.
I don't have the capability to run models bigger than about 50GB (I have an M2 with 64GB of RAM), so neither of these two designs are something I can quickly have fun with myself. That's where the brand-new distilled designs are available in.
To support the research community, we have open-sourced DeepSeek-R1-Zero, historydb.date DeepSeek-R1, and 6 dense designs distilled from DeepSeek-R1 based on Llama and Qwen.
This is a fascinating flex! They have actually designs 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 attached, which I'm uncertain works with the underlying Llama license. Qwen designs are Apache licensed so possibly MIT is OK?
(I likewise just discovered the MIT license files say "Copyright (c) 2023 DeepSeek" so they might need to pay a bit more attention to how they copied those in.)
Licensing aside, these distilled models are remarkable monsters.
Running DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-GGUF
Quantized variations are already beginning to show up. Up until now I have actually tried simply among 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 design using Ollama itself:
This downloads around 8.5 GB of model data and starts an interactive chat interface.
Once the model has been fetched, LLM can talk to it also. I choose using LLM for experiments because it logs whatever to SQLite for later expedition.
I set up the plugin and wiki.dulovic.tech ran it like this:
Each action starts with a ... pseudo-XML tag containing the chain of idea utilized to assist create the reaction. For "a joke about a pelican and a walrus who run a tea room 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 combination. Let me think of how these two characters might engage in a humorous situation.
First, let's consider their . Pelicans are understood for their long beaks and Webbed feet, often seen near the beach or water. Walruses have big teeth, thick fur, and they're typically discovered in chillier environments, like icebergs or snowy areas. So, combining these 2 into a tea room setting is currently a funny image.
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It then thought for 20 paragraphs before outputting the joke! Here's the complete records 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 huge size, struggles to find comfy chairs, so it sits on the table by mishap, knocking over the teapot. Meanwhile, the pelican, attempting to assist, utilizes its beak to position saucers on the table, triggering a few spills.
After a series of comical incidents, elearnportal.science the walrus looks up and states with a smile, "This isn't so fishy any longer." The pelican smirks and remarks, "Maybe not, but we do have a lot of krill in our tea!"
Explanation:
- Setup: Pelican and Walrus run a not likely tea space. Their sizes lead to comedic mayhem.
- Punchline: "This isn't so fishy anymore" is a pun on the scenario becoming less unreasonable. The follow-up joke introduces "krill," a play on words that ties into both marine life ("fish") and tea, making it humorous while fitting the style.
So yeah, the joke is terrible. But the process of getting there was such an interesting insight into how these new models work.
This was a fairly small 8B design. I'm anticipating attempting out the Llama 70B variation, which isn't yet available in a GGUF I can keep up Ollama. Given the strength of Llama 3.3 70B-currently my preferred GPT-4 class design that I've operated 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 attempted my timeless Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bike prompt too. It did refrain from doing effectively:
It aimed to me like it got the order of the aspects incorrect, so I followed up with:
the background wound up covering the remainder of the image
It believed some more and gave me this:
Just like the earlier joke, the chain of thought in the records was much more interesting than the end outcome.
Other ways to attempt DeepSeek-R1
If you want to try the design out without setting up anything at all you can do so utilizing chat.deepseek.com-you'll need to develop an account (check in with Google, utilize an email address or supply a Chinese +86 phone number) and after that choose the "DeepThink" option listed below the timely input box.
DeepSeek use the model via their API, utilizing an OpenAI-imitating endpoint. You can access that by means of LLM by dropping this into your extra-openai-models. yaml configuration file:
Then run llm secrets set deepseek and paste in your API secret, then utilize llm -m deepseek-reasoner 'prompt' to run triggers.
This will not show you the reasoning tokens, unfortunately. Those are dished out by the API (example here) but LLM doesn't yet have a way to show them.