section_path: History/Model releases (2023–present)
section_name: Model releases (2023–present)
paragraph_text: Model releases (2023–present)
  
  DeepSeek released its first model, DeepSeek Coder, on 2 November 2023, followed by the DeepSeek-LLM series on 29 November 2023.: section 5 In January 2024, it released two DeepSeek-MoE models (Base and Chat), and in April three DeepSeek-Math models (Base, Instruct, and RL).
  
  DeepSeek-V2 was released in May 2024, followed a month later by the DeepSeek-Coder V2 series. In September 2024, DeepSeek V2.5 was introduced and revised in December. On 20 November 2024, the preview of DeepSeek-R1-Lite became available via API and chat. In December, DeepSeek-V3-Base and DeepSeek-V3 (chat) were released.
  
  On 20 January 2025, DeepSeek launched the DeepSeek chatbot —based on the DeepSeek-R1 model—free for iOS and Android. By 27 January, DeepSeek surpassed ChatGPT as the most downloaded freeware app on the iOS App Store in the United States, triggering an 18% drop in Nvidia's share price.
  
  On 24 March 2025, DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V3-0324 under the MIT License.
  
  In February 2025, Singaporean authorities arrested several individuals for illegally exporting advanced Nvidia chips to DeepSeek. In April 2025, it was reported that the Trump administration was considering penalties that would attempt to block DeepSeek from buying U.S. technology.
  
  On 28 May 2025, DeepSeek released DeepSeek-R1-0528 under the MIT License.