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Cerebras-GPT vs. DeepSeek

LLM Comparison


Cerebras-GPT

Cerebras-GPT

Overview

The Cerebras-GPT family of models was developed by the AI accelerator company Cerebras following Chinchilla scaling laws as a demonstration of its Wafter-Scale Cluster technology.



Initial release: 2023-03-28

Further Reading

DeepSeek

DeepSeek

Overview

DeepSeek develops open-weight mixture-of-experts models for reasoning, coding, agents, and efficient long-context inference. DeepSeek V4 is the current generation.


DeepSeek began releasing language models in 2023 with DeepSeek Coder, then gained broad adoption with DeepSeek V3 and the R1 reasoning model in 2024 and 2025. DeepSeek V4, released in April 2026, includes a 284B-parameter Flash model with 13B active parameters and a 1.6T-parameter Pro model with 49B active parameters. Both support one-million-token context windows and are released with open weights under the MIT license.


Initial release: 2023-11-29

Current generation: DeepSeek V4

Cerebras-GPT

DeepSeek

Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Apache 2.0 MIT
Model Sizes 1.3B, 2.7B, 6.7B, 13B 284B (13B active), 1.6T (49B active)