DeepSeek R1 Zero by deepseek-ai

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DeepSeek R1 Zero is an open-source language model by deepseek-ai. Features: 684.5b LLM, VRAM: 180.4GB, Context: 160K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.26.

  Arxiv:2501.12948   Conversational   Custom code   Deepseek v3   Endpoints compatible   Fp8   Region:us   Safetensors   Sharded   Tensorflow

DeepSeek R1 Zero Benchmarks

nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

DeepSeek R1 Zero Parameters and Internals

LLM NameDeepSeek R1 Zero
Repository 🤗https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Zero 
Model Size684.5b
Required VRAM180.4 GB
Updated2026-04-18
Maintainerdeepseek-ai
Model Typedeepseek_v3
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Model ArchitectureDeepseekV3ForCausalLM
Licensemit
Context Length163840
Model Max Length163840
Transformers Version4.46.3
Tokenizer ClassLlamaTokenizerFast
Beginning of Sentence Token<|begin▁of▁sentence|>
End of Sentence Token<|end▁of▁sentence|>
Vocabulary Size129280
Torch Data Typebfloat16

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