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		seberino on Feb 1, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why DeepSeek had to be open source Thank you very much. That was helpful. Do we need the older model weights to use the recent DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1 models?

orra on Feb 2, 2025 [–]

I can't be 100% certain, but I think the good news is: no. There seem to be the exact same number of safetensor files for both, and AFAICT the file sizes are identical.

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3/tree/main https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1/tree/main

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