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buyucu 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: DeepSeek-R1

I'm confused why there is an 7b and an 8b version: https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1/tags

bradhilton 5 months ago [–]

These are distillation fine-tunes of two different models:

- Qwen2.5 7B - Llama3.1 8B

Though the sizes are similar, they will probably have different strengths and weaknesses based on their lineage.

buyucu 5 months ago | [–]

thanks.

I'm running the qwen distillation right now and it's amazing.

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