Want to Master DeepSeek? First, Understand What Makes It So Powerful!

🔥 Fore­word: The AI World is Explod­ing Again! And This Time, It's Dif­fer­ent!

Late­ly, the hottest top­ic in the AI com­mu­ni­ty is undoubt­ed­ly DeepSeek! This new­com­er is like a sud­den dis­rup­tor, emerg­ing with incred­i­ble skills, not only attract­ing the fer­vent atten­tion of devel­op­ers but also spark­ing glob­al dis­cus­sions!

But! Just know­ing it's pop­u­lar isn't enough. We need to dive deep and under­stand what makes it so pow­er­ful to tru­ly uti­lize it, right?

Today, I'll take you on a deep dive into DeepSeek's "inner work­ings," trans­form­ing you from a "casu­al observ­er" to an "inside expert"! And this time, we're going to talk about some­thing dif­fer­ent – we'll delve into the tech­ni­cal details and see how DeepSeek is mak­ing waves in the AI world!

🚀 DeepSeek: Who is This Mys­te­ri­ous Enti­ty?

Let's start with a sim­ple intro­duc­tion:

DeepSeek is a com­pa­ny ded­i­cat­ed to explor­ing Arti­fi­cial Gen­er­al Intel­li­gence (AGI). Their goal is to cre­ate AI that tru­ly under­stands and learns. DeepSeek Coder, DeepSeek LLM, and DeepSeek-VL are their flag­ship prod­ucts, each pos­sess­ing unique and pow­er­ful capa­bil­i­ties.

💪 DeepSeek's "Unique Skills": Break­ing the Mold!

Want to know what makes DeepSeek so pow­er­ful? Don't wor­ry, we'll look at them one by one. And this time, we're going deep into the tech­ni­cal details!

1. DeepSeek Coder: The "Sweep­ing Monk" of the Cod­ing World, and a "Self-Taught" Mas­ter!
   • Code Gen­er­a­tion: Fast, Accu­rate, and Ruth­less! This goes with­out say­ing, DeepSeek Coder's great­est skill is writ­ing code! Give it a require­ment, and it can "whoosh" out a bunch of code – fast, high-qual­i­ty, a programmer's dream!
   • Mul­ti­lin­gual Mas­tery: An All-Around Expert! Python, Java, C++, Go… DeepSeek Coder can eas­i­ly han­dle var­i­ous pro­gram­ming lan­guages.
   • Not Just Writ­ing, But Also Fix­ing! Code has bugs? DeepSeek Coder can also help you debug, find the prob­lem, and sug­gest mod­i­fi­ca­tions.
   • Excel­lent Per­for­mance, Sur­pass­ing its Pre­de­ces­sors! DeepSeek Coder's per­for­mance is quite impres­sive on mul­ti­ple code bench­mark tests such as HumanEval and MBPP.
   • Here's the Key: Rein­force­ment Learn­ing With­out Rely­ing on "Exten­sive Prac­tice"! The most impres­sive thing about the DeepSeek-R1 mod­el is that it intro­duces a rein­force­ment learn­ing method dur­ing the fine-tun­ing phase that doesn't rely on super­vised fine-tun­ing. What does this mean?
     • Tra­di­tion­al Method: Like a teacher teach­ing stu­dents hand-in-hand, stu­dents need to mem­o­rize stan­dard answers, and they might be con­fused when encoun­ter­ing new prob­lems.
     • DeepSeek-R1: Let the mod­el solve prob­lems on its own. Reward it when it gets it right, and even if it gets it wrong, let the mod­el sum­ma­rize the lessons learned and grad­u­al­ly "fig­ure out" the solu­tion!
     • How Does It Work Specif­i­cal­ly?
       1. Sim­ple Reward Cri­te­ria: Is the answer cor­rect (for math and pro­gram­ming prob­lems)? Does the out­put con­form to a spec­i­fied tem­plate (with a chain of thought)?
       2. Let the Mod­el Gen­er­ate Mul­ti­ple Answers: Gen­er­ate 16 can­di­date answers each time.
       3. Sur­vival of the Fittest: Select the good answers, adjust the mod­el para­me­ters, and make the mod­el more like­ly to gen­er­ate good answers next time.
       4. Con­tin­u­ous Cycle: After mul­ti­ple iter­a­tions, the mod­el can "learn on its own," and its rea­son­ing abil­i­ty will be great­ly improved!
     • How Amaz­ing is the Effect? In terms of math­e­mat­i­cal abil­i­ty, if the base mod­el scores 100, it can reach 450 after fine-tun­ing! With pre­vi­ous meth­ods, main­tain­ing the base model's lev­el after fine-tun­ing was already con­sid­ered good.
   • Remem­ber Alpha­Go Zero? The idea behind DeepSeek-R1 is very sim­i­lar to DeepMind's Alpha­Go Zero back then! Alpha­Go Zero didn't use human game records, it just played against itself and was able to beat all pre­vi­ous ver­sions! DeepSeek-R1 is the same – it doesn't need a lot of labeled data, and it can let the mod­el "evolve" on its own!
2. DeepSeek LLM: The Elo­quent "Lan­guage Mas­ter," and It's "Cost-Effec­tive"!
   • Ultra-Large Scale, Knowl­edge­able! DeepSeek LLM has a huge num­ber of para­me­ters, which means it has "read" a mas­sive amount of books and mate­ri­als, and its knowl­edge base is very broad.
   • Strong Under­stand­ing, Smooth Con­ver­sa­tion! Chat­ting with it is like chat­ting with a real per­son – it can under­stand, respond, and be log­i­cal!
   • Mul­ti-Task­ing, Mas­ter of All Trades! Writ­ing arti­cles, trans­lat­ing, writ­ing poems, mak­ing up sto­ries… it can do it all!
   • Safe and Reli­able, a Respon­si­ble AI! DeepSeek LLM has made a lot of efforts in terms of secu­ri­ty.
   • Tech­ni­cal High­t­lights, Save Cost is the king!
     • Mul­ti-Token Pre­dic­tion: Tra­di­tion­al mod­els pre­dict 1 token at a time (think of it as part of a word), while DeepSeek pre­dicts 2! The core lies in clever design, not sim­ply increas­ing the num­ber. Effect: Reduces the com­pu­ta­tion­al pow­er required for train­ing and infer­ence!
     • FP8 Mixed Pre­ci­sion: The pre­ci­sion of neur­al net­work train­ing has gone from FP32 to FP16, BF16, and then to INT8. DeepSeek uses FP8! Effect: Sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduces com­pu­ta­tion­al costs!
     • DualPipe Tech­nol­o­gy: Opti­mizes the under­ly­ing set­tings of NVIDIA com­put­ing cards! DeepSeek forcibly sets some of the stream proces­sors in com­put­ing cards like H800 and H20 to only han­dle com­mu­ni­ca­tion! Effect: Solves com­mu­ni­ca­tion bot­tle­necks and improves com­pu­ta­tion­al effi­cien­cy!
     • And MoE, Mul­ti-Head Latent Atten­tion, etc. All these tech­nolo­gies are aimed at reduc­ing costs and improv­ing effi­cien­cy!
3. DeepSeek-VL: The "Image Expert" with Sharp Eyes
   • Com­bin­ing the strengths of LLM and Coder, DeepSeek-VL is able to under­stand the con­tent of images more deeply.

✨ DeepSeek's "Inner Work­ings": Cost-Effec­tive, Effi­cient, and Open Source!

• Self-Devel­oped Archi­tec­ture, Unique! DeepSeek uses its self-devel­oped MLA archi­tec­ture, which has advan­tages in pro­cess­ing long sequences and reduc­ing com­pu­ta­tion­al com­plex­i­ty.
• Mas­sive Data, Care­ful­ly Trained! High-qual­i­ty data is the foun­da­tion.
• Con­tin­u­ous Opti­miza­tion, Con­stant Improve­ment! The DeepSeek team is always work­ing hard.
• Open Source, Embrac­ing the Com­mu­ni­ty! DeepSeek has open-sourced many of its mod­els – this is a vic­to­ry for open source!

🔑 How to Make Good Use of DeepSeek?

• Iden­ti­fy the Right Sce­nario, Apply the Right Solu­tion! DeepSeek's dif­fer­ent mod­els are good at dif­fer­ent tasks. You need to choose the appro­pri­ate mod­el based on your needs. For exam­ple, if you need to gen­er­ate code, use DeepSeek Coder; if you need to process nat­ur­al lan­guage, use DeepSeek LLM.
• Make Good Use of Tools, Achieve Twice the Result with Half the Effort! DeepSeek pro­vides var­i­ous tools and APIs, and you can use these tools to use DeepSeek more con­ve­nient­ly.
• Par­tic­i­pate in the Com­mu­ni­ty, Make Progress Togeth­er! DeepSeek has an active devel­op­er com­mu­ni­ty where you can exchange expe­ri­ences, learn skills, and pro­vide feed­back.
• Con­tin­u­ous Learn­ing, Stay Up-to-Date! AI tech­nol­o­gy is devel­op­ing rapid­ly, and DeepSeek is also con­stant­ly evolv­ing. You need to main­tain a pas­sion for learn­ing to keep up with the times.

🔮 Future Out­look: The Infi­nite Pos­si­bil­i­ties of DeepSeek

• Smarter Assis­tants: DeepSeek can become our smarter assis­tants, help­ing us han­dle var­i­ous com­plex tasks and improv­ing our work effi­cien­cy.
• More Per­son­al­ized Ser­vices: DeepSeek can pro­vide more per­son­al­ized ser­vices based on our needs and pref­er­ences, mak­ing our lives more con­ve­nient and com­fort­able.
• Wider Appli­ca­tion Sce­nar­ios: DeepSeek will be wide­ly used in var­i­ous fields such as health­care, edu­ca­tion, finance, and trans­porta­tion, pro­mot­ing social progress.

• Do more with less. This reminds me of the 86 ver­sion of "Jour­ney to the West". The fund­ing was lim­it­ed, but the crew tried their best, using a fish tank to film the Drag­on Palace and stock­ings to cre­ate soft light. The final effect was also great! DeepSeek is the same, achiev­ing excel­lent per­for­mance through tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tion under lim­it­ed resources!

💬 Con­clu­sion: Explore the Future of AI with DeepSeek!

The emer­gence of DeepSeek has opened a door to the future world for us. Let's embrace DeepSeek, explore the infi­nite pos­si­bil­i­ties of AI, and cre­ate a bet­ter future!