NewsDecember 1, 2025

DeepSeek-V3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models

Launching DeepSeek-V3.2 & DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale — Reasoning-first models built for agents!

  • DeepSeek-V3.2: Official successor to V3.2-Exp. Now live on App, Web & API.
  • DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: Pushing the boundaries of reasoning capabilities. API-only for now.

Tech report: DeepSeek-V3.2 Tech Report - Hugging Face

V3.2 Benchmark


World-Leading Reasoning

  • V3.2: Balanced inference vs. length. Your daily driver at GPT-5 level performance.
  • V3.2-Speciale: Maxed-out reasoning capabilities. Rivals Gemini-3.0-Pro.
  • Gold-Medal Performance: V3.2-Speciale attains gold-level results in IMO, CMO, ICPC World Finals & IOI 2025.

Note: V3.2-Speciale dominates complex tasks but requires higher token usage. Currently API-only (no tool-use) to support community evaluation & research.

V3.2 Benchmark Table


Thinking in Tool-Use

  • Introduces a new massive agent training data synthesis method covering 1,800+ environments & 85k+ complex instructions.
  • DeepSeek-V3.2 is our first model to integrate thinking directly into tool-use, and also supports tool-use in both thinking and non-thinking modes.

V3.2 Agent Benchmark


API Update

  • V3.2: Same usage pattern as V3.2-Exp.
  • V3.2-Speciale: Served via a temporary endpoint: base_url="https://api.deepseek.com/v3.2_speciale_expires_on_20251215". Same pricing as V3.2, no tool calls, available until Dec 15th, 2025, 15:59 (UTC Time).
  • V3.2 now supports Thinking in Tool-Use — details: Thinking Mode Guide - API Docs

Thinking with Tools


Open Source Release