Build a DeepSeek Model (From Scratch)

When DeepSeek started making waves in January 2025, it sounded too good to be true. How could a generative AI model get such incredible performance with such low training and operation costs? By creatively blending a variety of strategies and innovations like Mixture of Experts, Latent Attention, Multi-token Prediction, model distillation, and efficient parallelization, DeepSeek set a new standard for what’s possible in an open LLM.

Now, in this book you can recreate a laptop-scale version...