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DeepSeek-V2

DeepSeek·

LLMsopen-weightcloud + localMulti-GPU Self-Host

Overview

Strong performance at a lower cost.

Capabilities and innovations

MLA ArchitectureGPT-4 classExtremely cheap APIMulti-head Latent Attention (MLA)KV Cache Compression (93.3%)DeepSeekMoE Architecture

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreSource
GPQA Diamond48.3%unsourced
Humanity’s Last Exam (no tools)6.1%unsourced
SWE-bench Verified18.9%unsourced
MMLU77.8%unsourced
  • SWE-bench Pro: benchmark did not exist at release
  • MMLU-Pro: benchmark did not exist at release
  • Terminal-Bench 2.x: benchmark did not exist at release
  • MMMU-Pro: benchmark did not exist at release

Architecture and hardware

Parameters
236B total, 21B active per token (MoE)
Estimated VRAM at Q4
~136 GB, Multi-GPU Self-Host class

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