What are the hardware requirements for DeepSeek V2 Chat 0628?

DeepSeek V2 Chat 0628 requires approximately 369.8 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 160K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed DeepSeek V2 Chat 0628 and how large is it?

DeepSeek V2 Chat 0628 is developed by deepseek-ai, a model with 235.7b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate DeepSeek V2 Chat 0628?

DeepSeek V2 Chat 0628 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

DeepSeek V2 Chat 0628 by deepseek-ai — VRAM 369.8GB, 160K context

Name: DeepSeek V2 Chat 0628
Author: deepseek-ai

DeepSeek V2 Chat 0628 is an open-source language model by deepseek-ai. Features: 235.7b LLM, VRAM: 369.8GB, Context: 160K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

Arxiv:2405.04434 Conversational Custom code Deepseek v2 Endpoints compatible Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2-Chat-0628

DeepSeek V2 Chat 0628 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	DeepSeek V2 Chat 0628
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2-Chat-0628
Model Size	235.7b
Required VRAM	369.8 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	deepseek-ai
Model Type	deepseek_v2
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Model Architecture	DeepseekV2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	163840
Model Max Length	163840
Transformers Version	4.39.3
Vocabulary Size	102400
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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