DeepSeek R1 Distill (Llama 8B)

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DeepSeek R1 distilled into Llama 8B: a powerful reasoning model in a small package

Model info

Model

DeepSeek R1 Distill (Llama 8B)

Author

deepseek

Arch

llama

Parameters

8B

Format

gguf

Size on disk

about 4.92 GB

Download and run DeepSeek R1 Distill (Llama 8B)

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Download deepseek-r1-llama-8b from the terminal

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lms get deepseek-r1-llama-8b
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Call deepseek-r1-llama-8b from your code

curl http://localhost:1234/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "deepseek-r1-llama-8b",
    "messages": [
      { "role": "system", "content": "Always answer in rhymes." },
      { "role": "user", "content": "Introduce yourself." }
    ],
    "temperature": 0.7,
    "max_tokens": -1,
    "stream": true
  }'

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