Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse.
You almost certainly weren’t using a Deepseek model offline (unless you have 100s of GB of RAM/VRAM). You might have been using a small model distilled on Deepseek responses, but the smallest model made by Deepseek is about a 300B param model.
the smallest model made by Deepseek is about a 300B param model.
This is not correct. DeepSeek has plenty of smaller models. I just had a scroll through their huggingface, and picked out a few: DeepSeek-V2-Lite (16B),
deepseek-moe-16b-chat, deepseek-llm-7b-chat, but there’s quite a few more too.
Though DeepSeek R1 is their flagship model, which is the one people usually think of, and that’s a 684B param model.
ummm, the only times I ever used deepseek was fully offline on my hardware, I call bullshit
You almost certainly weren’t using a Deepseek model offline (unless you have 100s of GB of RAM/VRAM). You might have been using a small model distilled on Deepseek responses, but the smallest model made by Deepseek is about a 300B param model.
This is not correct. DeepSeek has plenty of smaller models. I just had a scroll through their huggingface, and picked out a few: DeepSeek-V2-Lite (16B), deepseek-moe-16b-chat, deepseek-llm-7b-chat, but there’s quite a few more too.
Though DeepSeek R1 is their flagship model, which is the one people usually think of, and that’s a 684B param model.