DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

8B parameters · 128k context · MIT License · released 2025-01-20

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What to run it on in the US

Fully in memory at 64k context, priced at retailers today.

Nothing we price holds this model fully in memory.

All hardware that runs it

Everything we price, best value first. Two cards split the model by layers.

Nothing we price can run it at this context.

Memory needed

Weights, KV cache and runtime buffers at each context length (KV cache at fp16).

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Run it

Copy a command for the runtime you use.

No published builds to run yet.

Notes

Hugging Face Transformers is not directly supported; run via the DeepSeek-V3 repo tooling, and avoid system prompts (temperature 0.6 recommended). Distill variants inherit upstream Qwen-2.5 (Apache 2.0) or Llama 3.1/3.3 licences.

Questions

What licence is DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B released under?
MIT License, which allows commercial use.