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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
by DeepSeek
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RANKED #185 OF 271 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #297 OF 6,567 · VIBE SCORE 5.6 · 28 VOICES
Qwen instruction model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and tool use
HAPPY9.9
3 mentions
SAD5.1
3 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 20 voices
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. DeepSeek hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS7
Gemma 4 26B A4BGooglePick for superior reasoning and coding while staying easy to run locally.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE2.2k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.4DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeekPick when you need top-tier reasoning and coding depth for heavier workflows.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE❤️ CROWD FAVORITE6.2k VOICESMATCH★★★
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.6DiscoveryReaperdoesntknowPick when you need an ultra-lightweight open model to run locally on minimal hardware.🪶 RUNS ON LESS⚡ FAST🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE9.4k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B yet to call it. We found 28 posts but people did not say much either way.
26 POSTS · 2 COMMENTS · STACK OVERFLOW · HACKER NEWS · LEMMY · REDDIT · GITHUB
PEOPLE LOVE
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PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
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> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2025-01-21 · 325 UPVOTES1.5B did WHAT?
1.5B did WHAT?
- REDDIT · 2025-05-27 · 62 UPVOTES[R] AutoThink: Adaptive reasoning technique that improves local LLM performance by 43% on GPQA-Diamond
[R] AutoThink: Adaptive reasoning technique that improves local LLM performance by 43% on GPQA-Diamond
- HACKER NEWS · 2025-01-20 · 39 UPVOTESDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B Surpasses GPT-4o in certain benchmarks
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B Surpasses GPT-4o in certain benchmarks
- REDDIT · 2025-02-12 · 13 UPVOTESContext window length table
Context window length table
- REDDIT · 2026-02-27 · 10 UPVOTESI fine-tuned DeepSeek-R1-1.5B for alignment and measured the results using Anthropic's new Bloom framework.
I fine-tuned DeepSeek-R1-1.5B for alignment and measured the results using Anthropic's new Bloom framework.
- REDDIT · 2025-01-27 · 8 UPVOTESVery cool of ChatGPT to walk me through finding and installing the best version of DeepSeek for my system! Even gave me a video to watch :)
Very cool of ChatGPT to walk me through finding and installing the best version of DeepSeek for my system! Even gave me a video to watch :)
- REDDIT · 2025-04-02 · 4 UPVOTESI made an almost universal LLM Creator/Trainer
I made an almost universal LLM Creator/Trainer
- HACKER NEWS · 2025-01-21 · 3 UPVOTESDeepSeek-R1 on iPhone? (DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B-GGUF)
DeepSeek-R1 on iPhone? (DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B-GGUF)
- REDDIT · 2026-02-27 · 2 UPVOTESI fine-tuned DeepSeek-R1-1.5B for alignment and measured the results using Anthropic's new Bloom framework
I fine-tuned DeepSeek-R1-1.5B for alignment and measured the results using Anthropic's new Bloom framework
- GITHUB · 2026-08-22 · 0 UPVOTESFix AutoTokenizer returning TokenizersBackend for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen models
Fix AutoTokenizer returning TokenizersBackend for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen models
- GITHUB · 2026-08-26 · 0 UPVOTESAdd credential-free DeepSeek open-weight dialogue fallback
Add credential-free DeepSeek open-weight dialogue fallback
- GITHUB · 2026-08-31 · 0 UPVOTES[rollout] Continuous Token: DeepSeek-R1 distills cannot construct a builder since #6804 (Qwen builder requires < im_end >)
[rollout] Continuous Token: DeepSeek-R1 distills cannot construct a builder since #6804 (Qwen builder requires < im_end >)