id: deepseek-ai__DeepSeek-R1__strategic
status: approved
name: DeepSeek-R1
org: deepseek-ai
source:
  kind: huggingface
  url: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
  revision: main
  model_card_url: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
  project_url: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
license:
  spdx: MIT
  url: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
  allows_offline_retention: true
  allows_local_ops: true
  allows_fine_tune: true
  notes: "MIT for R1 series per public release notes; re-confirm card at pin."
profile:
  summary: "Strategic full open reasoner — best-known open R1-class weights for future multi-GPU."
  original_source: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
  use_cases:
    - "Offline retention of top open reasoner lineage"
    - "Future local hosted reason when multi-GPU is available"
    - "Teacher / reference for distill and eval harnesses"
    - "Hard planning and math when API reasoners are unavailable"
  sweet_spots:
    - "S2 pure-reason niche on the reserve"
    - "Complements V3 general MoE rather than replacing the 14B distill spine"
    - "MIT-friendly open reasoner identity"
  not_ideal_for:
    - "Current single-GPU daily reason (use R1-Distill-14B)"
    - "Full-precision pull if soft quota already holds S1 giant"
    - "Casual chat default"
  capability_notes: >
    Full DeepSeek-R1 (or open successor reasoner). Distills cover runnable reason;
    this entry is strategic optionality. If quota forces a choice between full R1
    and full V3, re-evaluate from latest brief which niche is the larger gap.
swot:
  strengths:
    - "Reference open reasoner class for the era"
    - "Distill ecosystem already proves value at smaller sizes"
    - "Open weights for offline continuity"
  weaknesses:
    - "Enormous resource cost to serve"
    - "Overlaps capability budget with S1 MoE on a small disk"
    - "Version supersession risk"
  opportunities:
    - "Hold compressed if needed; keep identity for later upgrade"
    - "Use as teacher target for lab distill experiments"
  threats:
    - "Quota: competing with S1 for hundreds of GiB"
    - "Newer open reasoners may displace this checkpoint"
size:
  total_bytes: 0
  total_human: "large — similar class to V3 full; prefer compressed if needed for 850 GiB soft quota"
hardware_class:
  min_vram_gb_q4: 0
  min_vram_gb_fp16: 0
  notes: "Beyond current lab run envelope. Distills (14B/32B) cover runnable reason; this is full strategic reasoner."
axes: [A, B, C]
priority: high
collection:
  approved_by: "bernd"
  approved_at: "2026-07-28"
  downloaded_at: null
  downloaded_by: ""
  storage_path: ""
  brief_refs:
    - research/2026-07-24-nas-strategic-collection-plan.md
    - docs/decisions/2026-07-24-nas-strategic-reserve.md
reason: "S2 strategic — best-known open reasoner lineage; optionality for future multi-GPU / hosted local reason."
tags: [tier-s, strategic, beyond-run-envelope, reasoning]
companions:
  - deepseek-ai__DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B__candidate
notes: "If quota forces a choice between full R1 and full V3, prefer the stronger current open general (often V3/V4 line) unless pure reason is the gap; re-evaluate at pull time from latest brief."
history:
  - at: "2026-07-24"
    event: nominated
    by: operator-policy
    detail: "Strategic NAS reserve — unrunnable OK."
  - at: "2026-07-28"
    event: profile_swot_added
    by: grok
    detail: "schema 0.2 profile + SWOT."
  - at: "2026-07-28"
    event: approved
    by: bernd
    detail: "S2 full reasoner — deferred; 14B distill covers runnable reason"
  - at: "2026-07-28"
    event: collection_deferred
    by: grok
    detail: "S2 full reasoner — deferred; 14B distill covers runnable reason"