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A Technical Tour of the DeepSeek Models from V3 to V3.2

Understanding How DeepSeek's Flagship Open-Weight Models Evolved

Sebastian Raschka, PhD
Dec 03, 2025
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This post originally appeared in Ahead of AI.

“While DeepSeek V3 wasn’t popular at first, the R1 reasoning model turned it into one of the most widely used open-weight alternatives to today’s propriet…

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