{"schema_version":"onlylabs.public_analysis.v1","url":"https://onlylabs.fyi/analysis/deepseek","json_url":"https://onlylabs.fyi/analysis/deepseek/analysis.json","evidence_json_url":"https://onlylabs.fyi/analysis/deepseek/evidence.json","generated_at":"2026-06-11T16:31:31.424Z","analysis":{"org_slug":"deepseek","url":"https://onlylabs.fyi/analysis/deepseek","json_url":"https://onlylabs.fyi/analysis/deepseek/analysis.json","evidence_json_url":"https://onlylabs.fyi/analysis/deepseek/evidence.json","dossier_url":"https://onlylabs.fyi/labs/deepseek","org":{"slug":"deepseek","name":"DeepSeek","category":"frontier-lab","category_label":"Frontier lab","homepage_url":"https://www.deepseek.com/"},"title":"DeepSeek analysis","summary":"DeepSeek is shipping open-weight models at scale while simultaneously open-sourcing systems infrastructure alongside them. Its public footprint is split between flagship reasoning/general models (the R1 and V3 lines, both ~684.5B-param checkpoints) and a steady drumbeat of systems/infrastructure releases (DeepGEMM, DeepEP, FlashMLA, 3FS) — a model-plus-infra strategy. Flagship weights dominate downloads on Hugging…","markdown":"## Thesis\n\nDeepSeek is shipping open-weight models at scale while simultaneously open-sourcing systems infrastructure alongside them. Its public footprint is split between flagship reasoning/general models (the [R1](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1) and [V3](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3) lines, both ~684.5B-param checkpoints) and a steady drumbeat of systems/infrastructure releases ([DeepGEMM](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepGEMM), [DeepEP](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepEP), [FlashMLA](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/FlashMLA), [3FS](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/3FS)) — a model-plus-infra strategy.\n\n## Shipping\n\nFlagship weights dominate downloads on Hugging Face. [`DeepSeek-R1-0528`](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528) leads at **6.44M** 30-day downloads (684.5B params), with the original [`DeepSeek-R1`](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1) at **5.69M** downloads and the highest like count on the slate (13,376). The general-model line continues with [`DeepSeek-V3.2`](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2) at **4.12M** downloads (685.4B params) and the earlier [`DeepSeek-V3`](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3) at **1.07M**; an experimental [`DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp`](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp) is also published (166K downloads).\n\nA second product axis is OCR/vision: [`DeepSeek-OCR`](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR) (**2.70M** downloads, 3.34B params) and its successor [`DeepSeek-OCR-2`](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2) (**1.84M**), plus the smaller VLM [`deepseek-vl2-tiny`](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2-tiny) (843K).\n\nThe R1 reasoning behavior is widely propagated through distillations into other base models: [`R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B`](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B) (772K), [`R1-Distill-Qwen-32B`](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B) (554K), [`R1-Distill-Qwen-14B`](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B) (547K), [`R1-Distill-Qwen-7B`](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B) (531K), [`R1-Distill-Llama-8B`](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B) (486K), and [`R1-0528-Qwen3-8B`](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B) (291K).\n\nOn GitHub, the model repos anchor the top of the stars chart — [`DeepSeek-V3`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3) (**103.7k** stars) and [`DeepSeek-R1`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1) (**92.0k**) — followed by [`awesome-deepseek-integration`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/awesome-deepseek-integration) (37.8k), [`DeepSeek-Coder`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder) (23.6k), and [`DeepSeek-OCR`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR) (23.3k). The infra stack is its own cluster: [`Janus`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/Janus) (17.7k), [`FlashMLA`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/FlashMLA) (12.7k), [`3FS`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/3FS) (10.0k), [`DeepEP`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepEP) (9.7k), [`open-infra-index`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/open-infra-index) (8.0k), [`DeepGEMM`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepGEMM) (7.4k), and [`DeepSeek-LLM`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-LLM) (7.0k). Recent tagged releases skew toward infra cadence: multiple [DeepGEMM](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepGEMM/releases/tag/v2.1.1.post3) builds (a string of `nv_dev_*` dev tags plus `v2.1.1.post3`) and [DeepEP `v1.2.1`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepEP/releases/tag/v1.2.1), alongside the `v1.0.0` tags for [DeepSeek-V3](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3/releases/tag/v1.0.0) and [DeepSeek-R1](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1/releases/tag/v1.0.0).\n\n## Research themes\n\nNo first-party writing captured yet.\n\n## Hiring & scaling\n\nNo careers data captured yet.\n\n## Traction highlights\n\nHacker News attention is concentrated on a single launch: [`DeepSeek-OCR`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR) drew **1,003 points / 244 comments**, an order of magnitude above the next thread, [`DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp) at **309 points / 50 comments**. A long tail of smaller/newer repos also surfaced — [`LPLB`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/LPLB) (43 pts), [`DeepSeek-Math-V2`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math-V2) (9 pts), [`DeepSeek-OCR-2`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2) (7 pts), [`Engram`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/Engram) (3 pts), and [`TileKernels`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/TileKernels) (2 pts). On adoption, the most-downloaded model is [`DeepSeek-R1-0528`](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528) (6.44M/30d) and the most-starred repo is [`DeepSeek-V3`](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3) (103.7k stars).\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.deepseek.com/\n- https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528\n- https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1\n- https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2\n- https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp\n- https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR\n- https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2\n- https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3\n- https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl2-tiny\n- https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B\n- https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3\n- https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1\n- https://github.com/deepseek-ai/awesome-deepseek-integration\n- https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder\n- 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