How to get DeepSeek V3, which was just quietly released

DeepSeek stormed the AI landscape earlier this year, unleashing DeepSeek AI models (V1 and R1) onto the world that were on par with ChatGPT offerings from OpenAI, including the most advanced o1 reasoning model. The news that China achieved parity with the best AI models from the US despite bans on high-end AI hardware tanked the stock market. DeepSeek developed its AI models without access to the latest hardware, which it's banned from purchasing. Instead, the company resorted to software innovations that helped it reduce costs, as well has using some smuggled processors.

DeepSeek is also believed to have distilled ChatGPT versions to train its DeepSeek models, not that it really matters in a world where the likes of OpenAI, Google, Meta, and others have been scraping the web to train their AI on all sorts of data, ignoring copyrights concerns in the process. The bad news didn't stop there. DeepSeek released its models as open-source, which meant anybody could download and run them locally without worrying about paying DeepSeek for access, or about the privacy and data security implications of using software from China.

Fast-forward to late March, and DeepSeek has quietly launched DeepSeek V3, its next-gen chatbot that might be used to train the DeepSeek R2 reasoning model that should be released in the coming months. However, DeepSeek didn't make a big deal about the DeepSeek V3 release (yet). As a result, it might not be easy to determine whether you can access it.

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