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DeepSeek: DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B

deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528-qwen3-8b

Model weights

DeepSeek-R1-0528 is a lightly upgraded release of DeepSeek R1 that taps more compute and smarter post-training tricks, pushing its reasoning and inference to the brink of flagship models like O3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro. It now tops math, programming, and logic leaderboards, showcasing a step-change in depth-of-thought. The distilled variant, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B, transfers this chain-of-thought into an 8 B-parameter form, beating standard Qwen3 8B by +10 pp and tying the 235 B “thinking” giant on AIME 2024.

Modalities

Context

131K

Released

May 29, 2025

Knowledge Cutoff

Mar 2025

About DeepSeek: DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B

OpenRouter makes DeepSeek: DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B available through a unified, OpenAI-compatible API using the model ID deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528-qwen3-8b.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B accepts text and returns text. It has a 131,072-token context window.

It was released on May 29, 2025; its knowledge cutoff is March 31, 2025.

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Frequently asked questions

DeepSeek-R1-0528 is a lightly upgraded release of DeepSeek R1 that taps more compute and smarter post-training tricks, pushing its reasoning and inference to the brink of flagship models like O3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro. It now tops math, programming, and logic leaderboards, showcasing a step-change in depth-of-thought.

DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B has a 131,072 token context window.

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 and 9 more are other text models from DeepSeek.

DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B was released on May 29, 2025. Its knowledge cutoff is March 31, 2025.

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Activity

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