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DeepSeek has just released their March 2025 update to the V3 model — V3-0324 — and it’s now the highest-scoring open-source non-reasoning model. According to Artificial Analysis, this is the first time an open-weights model has outperformed all proprietary non-reasoning models, including Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Pro, and LLaMA 3.3 70B.
This is a huge milestone for open source and a major leap forward for developers working on latency-sensitive applications where speed matters more than step-by-step reasoning. It’s also a strong signal of what’s to come, with DeepSeek V3-0324 paving the way for the anticipated R2 model.
🚀 What is special about DeepSeek V3-0324?
This isn’t just a refresh — V3-0324 is a major performance upgrade over the original V3 release from December 2024. With stronger reasoning, faster code generation, and improved front-end design capabilities, developers are already calling this a “game-changing update.”
Built on a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 671B total parameters (but only 37B active per token), it’s designed for power and efficiency. Key features like Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) and multi-token prediction boost both context handling and output speed.
It also outperforms non-reasoning closed models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini 2.0 Pro across key benchmarks:
💡 Why (and When) Should Developers Use It?
V3-0324 hits a sweet spot (especially using SambaNova cloud): high accuracy, low cost, high speed — ideal for developers building real-world applications that demand performance and scale.
Whether you're a solo dev or an enterprise team, it’s perfect for:
- Frontend and full-stack developers needing fast, accurate code generation
- Product teams building dynamic user interfaces and tools
- Startups and enterprises looking for top-tier performance without the price tag
- Researchers who want open access without proprietary limits
In short: V3-0324 is the fastest, most cost-effective way to run a state-of-the-art open model today.
⚡ Fast, Affordable, and Open — Try It Now on SambaNova Cloud
Not every use case calls for a heavyweight reasoning model like R1. For developers and teams who need blazing-fast inference, strong accuracy, and lower cost, DeepSeek V3-0324 on SambaNova Cloud is the perfect fit.
Optimized for speed and throughput, V3-0324 is ideal for powering real-time apps, coding agents, and dynamic UIs — all without sacrificing quality.
We’re excited to offer V3-0324 on SambaNova Cloud, running at up to 250 tokens per second — the fastest inference speeds in the world, powered by our custom RDU architecture.
And it’s incredibly cost-effective:
- $1.00 per million input tokens
- $1.50 per million output tokens
This makes V3-0324 a high-performance, low-cost solution for teams running high-throughput workloads — only possible on SambaNova Cloud.
