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Wait timeout. I thought DeepSeek's stuff was all MIT licensed too no? What limitations are you thinking of that DeepSeek still has?

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I am referring to this one: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3/blob/main/LIC...

It is a bit more permissive than Llama's it seems (no MAU threshold it seems).

Wow. Your link is frustrating because I thought everything was under the MIT license. Why did people claim it is MIT licensed if they sneaked in this additional license?

So, the older DeepSeek-V3 model weights are sadly not permissively licensed.

But the recent DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1 have MIT licensed weights.

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?

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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