DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-Coder-V2

Released DeepSeek-Coder-V2 — 236B (21B active) and 16B (2.4B active) MoE models, further pretrained from a DeepSeek-V2 intermediate checkpoint on 6T additional tokens; programming languages expanded from 86 to 338 and context from 16K to 128K

Why it matters

An open-weight code model that DeepSeek claimed matched GPT-4 Turbo on code-specific tasks

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Officialgithub.comhttps://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder-V2

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