DeepSeek V3: later checkpoints, including DeepSeek-V3-0324, have shipped; this profile remains specific to the original December 2024 release

The OnAirToday AI Progress Tracker recorded a verified change to DeepSeek's DeepSeek V3 (version DeepSeek-V3 (original December 2024 release)): Later checkpoints, including DeepSeek-V3-0324, have shipped; this profile remains specific to the original December 2024 release.

DeepSeek-V3 is an open-weight, text-generation model with a mixture-of-experts architecture and documented strengths in coding, mathematics and multilingual tasks. This profile covers the original December 2024 checkpoint, not subsequent releases such as DeepSeek-V3-0324; current hosted availability and pricing for that exact checkpoint are Not yet confirmed by public reporting.

What changed in this review:

• LiveCodeBench is corrected to the original release's published 40.5%; AIME is explicitly labeled AIME 2024.
• Benchmark coverage is limited to published results attributable to the original checkpoint.
• Current hosted pricing for the exact original checkpoint is Not yet confirmed by public reporting.
• The January 2025 database exposure is recorded as a service-level privacy incident, not a vulnerability in V3's weights.
• Flaws and limitations updated
• Risks and threats updated

Teams building on DeepSeek V3 should confirm limits, pricing and benchmark coverage against the vendor's own documentation before relying on these figures.

The full profile — capabilities, benchmark citations, known flaws and risk guidance — is on the tracker at /ai-models/deepseek-chat.

References:

• https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19437
• https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324
• https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-uncovers-exposed-deepseek-database-leak