DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- DeepSeek
- C · CEO & Politics
- Liang Wenfeng — Not publicly documented (PRC-based; operates under Chinese regulatory environment)
- D · Date
- 2024
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud + Local (open weights)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- China
- K · Key Staffers
- Liang Wenfeng (Founder & CEO)
- L · Languages
- Chinese-primary
- M · Model Type
- Code LLM
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Yes — open weights
- P · Pricing
- Free (open weights, DeepSeek License)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- [UNKNOWN]
- R · What Makes It Special
- DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite, the 16B-parameter version (2.4B active parameters, 128K context) of DeepSeek's open mixture-of-experts code model DeepSeek-Coder-V2, which was further pretrained from a DeepSeek-V2 checkpoint on 6 trillion more tokens and supports 338 programming languages; DeepSeek reports DeepSeek-Coder-V2 beats GPT-4 Turbo, Claude 3 Opus and Gemini 1.5 Pro on coding and math benchmarks.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private (funded by High-Flyer)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @deepseek_ai
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights Code LLM from DeepSeek, released 2024.
Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗
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“DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/deepseek-coder-v2-lite.html
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