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That model was trained in part using their unreleased R1 "reasoning" model. Today they have actually launched R1 itself, along with an entire household of new designs obtained from that base.
There's an entire lot of things in the brand-new release.
DeepSeek-R1-Zero appears to be the base design. It's over 650GB in size and, like the majority of their other releases, morphomics.science is under a clean MIT license. DeepSeek alert that "DeepSeek-R1-Zero comes across difficulties such as unlimited repeating, bad readability, and language mixing." ... so they likewise launched:
DeepSeek-R1-which "incorporates cold-start information before RL" and "attains performance equivalent to OpenAI-o1 across math, code, and thinking jobs". That a person is also MIT accredited, and is a similar size.
I don't have the capability to run models larger than about 50GB (I have an M2 with 64GB of RAM), so neither of these 2 models are something I can easily have fun with myself. That's where the brand-new distilled models are available in.
To support the research study neighborhood, we have open-sourced DeepSeek-R1-Zero, DeepSeek-R1, and 6 dense models distilled from DeepSeek-R1 based on Llama and forum.batman.gainedge.org Qwen.
This is a remarkable flex! They have 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 designs have an MIT license attached, which I'm uncertain is compatible with the underlying Llama license. Qwen designs are Apache accredited so maybe MIT is OK?
(I also simply noticed the MIT license files state "Copyright (c) 2023 DeepSeek" so they may require to pay a 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 have actually attempted simply one of those- unsloth/DeepSeek-R 1-Distill-Llama-8B-GGUF launched by Unsloth AI-and it's truly enjoyable to have fun with.
I'm running it using the mix of Ollama, LLM and the llm-ollama plugin.
First I fetched and ran the design utilizing Ollama itself:
This downloads around 8.5 GB of design information and begins an interactive chat user interface.
Once the design has actually been fetched, LLM can speak to it as well. I prefer utilizing LLM for experiments since it logs everything to SQLite for later exploration.
I installed the plugin and thatswhathappened.wiki ran it like this:
Each action begins with a ... pseudo-XML tag containing the chain of idea utilized to help produce the reaction. For "a joke about a pelican and a walrus who run a tea space together" that began like this:
Okay, so I need 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 about how these two characters may interact in an amusing scenario.
First, let's consider their qualities. Pelicans are known for their long beaks and Webbed feet, typically seen near the beach or water. Walruses have big teeth, thick fur, and they're typically found in colder climates, like icebergs or snowy locations. So, combining these two into a tea room setting is already an amusing image.
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It then believed for 20 paragraphs before outputting the joke! Here's the full transcript and here's the output at the end, after the tag:
The Joke:
A pelican and visualchemy.gallery a walrus choose to open a quaint little tea room together. The walrus, with its big size, struggles to discover comfy chairs, so it sits on the table by accident, over the teapot. Meanwhile, the pelican, attempting to help, utilizes its beak to put saucers on the table, causing a couple of spills.
After a series of funny incidents, the walrus looks up and says with a smile, "This isn't so fishy anymore." The pelican smirks and remarks, "Maybe not, however we do have a lot 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 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 amusing while fitting the style.
So yeah, the joke is dreadful. But the process of arriving was such an interesting insight into how these brand-new designs work.
This was a fairly small 8B design. I'm eagerly anticipating trying 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 preferred GPT-4 class model that I've worked on my own machine-I have high expectations.
Update 21st January 2025: I got this quantized version of that Llama 3.3 70B R1 distilled model working like this-a 34GB download:
Can it draw a pelican?
I attempted my classic Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle prompt too. It did refrain from doing effectively:
It aimed to me like it got the order of the aspects wrong, so I followed up with:
the background ended up covering the remainder of the image
It thought some more and offered me this:
Similar to the earlier joke, the chain of believed in the transcript was even more interesting than completion result.
Other ways to try DeepSeek-R1
If you wish to try the design out without installing anything at all you can do so using chat.deepseek.com-you'll need to develop an account (indication in with Google, utilize an email address or wiki.vst.hs-furtwangen.de offer a Chinese +86 contact number) and then select the "DeepThink" option below the prompt input box.
DeepSeek provide the model through their API, utilizing an OpenAI-imitating endpoint. You can access that through LLM by dropping this into your extra-openai-models. yaml configuration file:
Then run llm secrets set deepseek and paste in your API secret, library.kemu.ac.ke then use llm -m deepseek-reasoner 'timely' to run prompts.
This will not show you the thinking tokens, regretfully. Those are provided by the API (example here) however LLM doesn't yet have a way to display them.