Lab release history
Last updated Apr 24, 2026
DeepSeek model releases
Chinese lab shipping permissively licensed frontier-class models. This page collects the lab's model releases, lifecycle events, source links, and model metadata in one crawlable record.
19 models
DeepSeek V4-Flash
AvailableEfficient V4 companion model with 284B total / 13B active parameters and the same one-million-token context window.
DeepSeek V4-Pro
AvailablePreview-series sparse MoE flagship with a one-million-token context window and 1.6T total / 49B active parameters.
DeepSeek-V3.2
AvailableReasoning-first agent model that adds DeepSeek Sparse Attention and thinking directly inside tool-use workflows.
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
AvailableHigh-compute reasoning variant of V3.2, positioned for olympiad-level math, programming, and other deep reasoning tasks.
DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
PreviewExperimental checkpoint that introduced DeepSeek Sparse Attention as an efficiency bridge between V3.1-Terminus and V3.2.
DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus
AvailableStability update to V3.1 focused on language consistency, code-agent reliability, and search-agent behavior.
DeepSeek-V3.1
AvailableHybrid thinking/non-thinking release that upgraded tool calling, long-context training, and agent task performance.
DeepSeek R2
RumoredRumored successor to DeepSeek R1. Reports say development and launch timing were affected by hardware constraints around Huawei Ascend training and Nvidia availability; final specs, license, and release date remain unconfirmed.
DeepSeek-R1-0528
AvailableMajor R1 reasoning update with stronger math, programming, general logic, function calling, and reduced hallucinations.
DeepSeek-V3-0324
AvailablePost-R1 V3 update with improved reasoning, front-end coding, Chinese writing, search, and function calling.
DeepSeek-R1
AvailableBreakout open reasoning model trained with large-scale reinforcement learning and released with weights under MIT.
DeepSeek-V3
AvailableThe 671B/37B-active MoE release that made DeepSeek a central open-model lab before the R1 breakthrough.
DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview
RetiredReasoning-preview model exposed in DeepSeek Chat ahead of the open DeepSeek-R1 release.
DeepSeek-V2.5
AvailableUnified DeepSeek V2 generation combining general-chat and coding strengths before the V3 series.
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
AvailableOpen code-focused MoE built from DeepSeek-V2, expanding programming-language coverage and coding benchmark performance.
DeepSeek-V2
AvailableDeepSeek's first major MoE general model with Multi-head Latent Attention and low-cost API positioning.
DeepSeekMoE 16B
AvailableEarly DeepSeek sparse MoE research model that foreshadowed the later V2/V3 architecture direction.
DeepSeek LLM 67B
AvailableFirst general DeepSeek language model family, with 7B and 67B base/chat checkpoints.
DeepSeek Coder 33B
AvailableDeepSeek's first public code-model family, released before the general DeepSeek LLM line.