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DeepSeek vs. Gemma

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DeepSeek

DeepSeek

Overview

DeepSeek currently offers V3 and R1 models, both of which are highly efficient and performant. V3 is comparable to models such as Anthropic's Sonnet 3.5, while R1 is comparable to models such as OpenAI's o1.


DeepSeek is a Chinese startup that began releasing LLMs in 2023 with DeepSeek Coder. In rapid succession, DeepSeek has since released more powerful models, most notably releasing DeepSeek V3 at the end of 2024 and DeepSeek R1 at the beginning of 2025. DeepSeek V3 and R1 set the frontier in terms of efficiency while maintaining high performance. The release of V3 and R1 sent shockwaves through the US technology sector, especially given the low cost with which V3 and R1 were trained (orders of magnitude less than the cost of training equivalent US models.)


Initial release: 2023-11-29

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Gemma

Gemma

Overview

Gemma is a family of lightweight open models from Google built using the same processes used for the the larger Gemini models.


Gemma was first released as a family of open models from Google -- 2B and 7B-parameter models, as of February 2024 -- intended for developers and compute-constrained devices. Despite their size, Gemma models compare favorably to other models of the same size such as the Mistral 7B model.


Initial release: 2024-02-21

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DeepSeek

Gemma
Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License MIT Custom
Model Sizes 67B, 671B 2B, 7B

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Gemma vs. Alpaca Gemma vs. Cerebras-GPT Gemma vs. DeepSeek Gemma vs. Dolly Gemma vs. Falcon Gemma vs. FastChat Gemma vs. FLAN-T5 Gemma vs. FLAN-UL2 Gemma vs. Gemma 2 Gemma vs. GPT-J Gemma vs. GPT4All Gemma vs. GPTNeo Gemma vs. Grok Gemma vs. Guanaco Gemma vs. Koala Gemma vs. LLaMA Gemma vs. Llama 2 Gemma vs. Llama 3 Gemma vs. Mistral Gemma vs. MPT Gemma vs. OpenAssistant Gemma vs. OpenLLaMA Gemma vs. OPT Gemma vs. Orca Gemma vs. Phi Gemma vs. Pythia Gemma vs. RedPajama-INCITE Gemma vs. StableLM Gemma vs. StableVicuna Gemma vs. Vicuna Gemma vs. WizardLM

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