Yes, you can use DeepSeek in English. The official DeepSeek website includes an EN option, the official DeepSeek app is presented as an AI assistant, and the chat/API can answer in English when the prompt is clear. But using DeepSeek…
DeepSeek can be reasonable for low-risk, non-sensitive tasks, but it should not be treated as automatically safe for confidential, regulated, proprietary, or highly personal data. The right answer depends on how you use it: hosted chat, mobile app, API, a…
If DeepSeek is not working, start by checking the official DeepSeek Status page. If the status page reports an incident for Chat Service, API Service, File Upload, or Search, the safest fix is usually to wait, avoid repeated retries, and…
DeepSeek is partly open, but the precise answer depends on what you mean by “DeepSeek.” DeepSeek publishes many model repositories and downloadable model weights, and several official model cards or repositories list permissive licenses such as MIT. But the hosted…
DeepSeek V3 Family refers to the sequence of DeepSeek V3-series models released from late 2024 through 2025, including DeepSeek-V3, V3-0324, V3.1, V3.1-Terminus, V3.2-Exp, V3.2, and V3.2-Speciale. The family was important because it pushed open Mixture-of-Experts models, API-compatible deployment, reasoning improvements,…
DeepSeek R1 is DeepSeek’s first-generation reasoning model, released in January 2025. It became important because it showed strong reasoning performance, was released with open weights and a technical report, and helped push wider interest in reinforcement-learning-based reasoning models. However, DeepSeek…
DeepSeek V4 Pro is DeepSeek’s Pro model line for higher-end text, reasoning, coding, and agent workflows. In the official DeepSeek API, the current model is called deepseek-v4-pro, and the current model version shown in the official model table is DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813.…
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is DeepSeek’s current Flash model release, available through the official API as deepseek-flash. It is designed as a faster, lower-cost, multimodal model for text, image understanding, long-context work, and agent workflows. The name matters. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is the…
Yes, you can use the OpenAI SDK with DeepSeek. Configure the OpenAI client to use DeepSeek’s official OpenAI-compatible base URL, supply a DeepSeek API key, and use a DeepSeek model ID such as deepseek-flash. The OpenAI SDK is only the…
DeepSeek JSON Output is the API feature that asks DeepSeek to return a valid JSON string instead of ordinary prose. In Chat Completions, you enable it with response_format={“type”:”json_object”}. In the Responses API, you can use text.format={“type”:”json_object”} for JSON mode or…
