Chat with DeepSeek V3 and R1 Models Quick Start

# Your First DeepSeek API Call The DeepSeek API uses an API format compatible with OpenAI. By modifying the configuration, you can use the OpenAI SDK or softwares compatible with the OpenAI API to access the DeepSeek API. https://api-docs.deepseek.com/ ## Configuration Parameters | Parameter | Value | |-----------|--------| | base_url | https://api.deepseek.com | | api_key | https://platform.deepseek.com/api_keys | ## Important Notes - To be compatible with OpenAI, you can also use https://api.deepseek.com/v1 as the base_url. Note that the v1 here has NO relationship with the model's version. - The deepseek-chat model has been upgraded to DeepSeek-V3. The API remains unchanged. You can invoke DeepSeek-V3 by specifying model='deepseek-chat'. - deepseek-reasoner is the latest reasoning model, DeepSeek-R1, released by DeepSeek. You can invoke DeepSeek-R1 by specifying model='deepseek-reasoner'.