DeepSeek-V2 Lite

Name: DeepSeek-V2 Lite
Author: DeepSeek

DeepSeekDeepSeekStatus: active

DeepSeek-V2 Lite is a small language model, foundation AI model developed by DeepSeek. It was released on 2024-05-06. Its tracked lifecycle status is active. It supports a context window of 32,768 tokens. It has 16B parameters.

Specifications

Organization: DeepSeek
Model family: DeepSeek
Generation: V2
Status: active
Released: 2024-05-06
Model type: Small Language Model, Foundation
Input modalities: text
Output modalities: text
Context window: 32,768 tokens
Parameters: 16B
License: MIT
Weights: open weights
Official API: Yes
Self-hostable: Yes
Last verified: 2026-08-01

Capabilities

Tool use

Official sources

DeepSeek API Docs Official site Hugging Face

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