AI Launch Profile
DeepSeek-V3 open model release
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V3, a large mixture-of-experts language model with open weights and a technical report available through GitHub and Hugging Face.
At a glance
Launch Snapshot
- Company
- DeepSeek
- Launch date
- December 26, 2024
- Launch type
- Open-Source Release
- Category
- AI Open-Weight Models
- Audience
- Developers, Enterprises, Researchers
- Pricing
- Model weights are available for download; usage costs depend on self-hosting, inference provider, or DeepSeek platform/API access.
- Free plan
- Yes
- API
- Yes
- Open weights/source
- Yes
Launch Context
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Verification & Sources
- Status
- Verified
- Source links
- 3
- Freshness
- Needs recheck: verified June 8, 2026
- Last verified
- June 8, 2026
- Last updated
- June 11, 2026
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Kingy Launch Score
7.4 / 10 · Solid
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Why this score
- Source & verification 7.5/10 — The Hugging Face model page, the GitHub repository, and an arXiv paper — three first-party sources. huggingface.co
- Product evidence 8.0/10 — A large mixture-of-experts model with open weights, a public GitHub repository, and a published technical report. github.com
- Significance & novelty 7.0/10 — The record notes it set up the model lineage that powered the later DeepSeek-R1 release and drew major attention to efficient open models. huggingface.co
- Traction signals not scored — insufficient sourced evidence
- Offer clarity 6.5/10 — Weights are available for download; cost depends on self-hosting, an inference provider, or DeepSeek platform access. huggingface.co
Evidence checked 2026-07-11
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Kingy AI Take
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V3, a large mixture-of-experts model with open weights, a public repository, and a technical report on GitHub and Hugging Face (github.com). Developers, Enterprises, and Researchers exploring high-capability open models got a well-documented MoE release. The record notes this set up the lineage behind the later R1 model; operational trust, governance, and hosting requirements still need review before production use.
Who it is for
Researchers, model hosts, developers, and organizations exploring high-capability open-weight models and MoE architectures.
Traction notes
DeepSeek-V3 set up the model lineage that powered the later DeepSeek-R1 release and drew major attention to efficient open models.
Source-backed record