{
  "id": "deepseek-r1",
  "name": "DeepSeek-R1",
  "developer": "DeepSeek",
  "exact_model_id": "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-27",
  "evidence_level": "source-verified",
  "access": {
    "label": "Direct download",
    "gated": false
  },
  "license": {
    "name": "MIT",
    "commercial_use": "Publisher materials support commercial use under the MIT release.",
    "eu_note": "No explicit EU territorial restriction identified in the reviewed license/materials."
  },
  "architecture": {
    "parameters": "Large DeepSeek-V3-family MoE",
    "type": "Mixture-of-Experts reasoning model",
    "context": "See current serving configuration",
    "modalities": "Text → text"
  },
  "runtimes": [
    "vLLM",
    "SGLang",
    "Transformers",
    "Docker Model Runner"
  ],
  "hardware_note": "Very large deployment; multi-GPU/accelerator configurations are normally required.",
  "primary_source": "https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1",
  "third_party_runtime_evidence": [
    "tp-deepseek-r1-h100"
  ],
  "reference_page": "https://openweightmodels.eu/model-deepseek-r1.html",
  "owm_view": "DeepSeek-R1 is strategically important because it proved that a very large reasoning model could be distributed as weights under a permissive license. OWM does not treat it as a “local model” in the casual sense: the full 671B checkpoint is infrastructure-heavy. Its significance is that organizations can still operate that infrastructure themselves or choose among independent providers.",
  "seo_reference_verified_at": "2026-09-27",
  "change_history": "https://openweightmodels.eu/change-deepseek-r1.json"
}