Yes, DeepSeek R1's release is impressive. But the real story is what happened in just 7 days after:
- Original release: 8 models, 540K downloads. Just the beginning...
- The community turned those open-weight models into +550 NEW models on Hugging Face. Total downloads? 2.5Mβnearly 5X the originals.
The reason? DeepSeek models are open-weight, letting anyone build on top of them. Interesting to note that the community focused on quantized versions for better efficiency & accessibility. They want models that use less memory, run faster, and are more energy-efficient.
When you empower builders, innovation explodes. For everyone. π
The most popular community model? @bartowski's DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-GGUF version β 1M downloads alone.
llama.cpp is 26.8% faster than ollama. I have upgraded both, and using the same settings, I am running the same DeepSeek R1 Distill 1.5B on the same hardware. It's an Apples to Apples comparison.
Multimodal π¬ - We have released SmolVLM -- tiniest VLMs that come in 256M and 500M, with it's retrieval models ColSmol for multimodal RAG π - UI-TARS are new models by ByteDance to unlock agentic GUI control π€― in 2B, 7B and 72B - Alibaba DAMO lab released VideoLlama3, new video LMs that come in 2B and 7B - MiniMaxAI released Minimax-VL-01, where decoder is based on MiniMax-Text-01 456B MoE model with long context - Dataset: Yale released a new benchmark called MMVU - Dataset: CAIS released Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) a new challenging MM benchmark
LLMs π - DeepSeek-R1 & DeepSeek-R1-Zero: gigantic 660B reasoning models by DeepSeek, and six distilled dense models, on par with o1 with MIT license! π€― - Qwen2.5-Math-PRM: new math models by Qwen in 7B and 72B - NVIDIA released AceMath and AceInstruct, new family of models and their datasets (SFT and reward ones too!)
Audio π£οΈ - Llasa is a new speech synthesis model based on Llama that comes in 1B,3B, and 8B - TangoFlux is a new audio generation model trained from scratch and aligned with CRPO
Image/Video/3D Generation β―οΈ - Flex.1-alpha is a new 8B pre-trained diffusion model by ostris similar to Flux - tencent released Hunyuan3D-2, new 3D asset generation from images