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# DeepSeek

DeepSeek is a platform for providing endpoints for Large Language models.

## Authentication

Set your `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY` environment variable. Get your key from [here](https://platform.deepseek.com/api_keys).

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  ```bash Mac theme={null}
  export DEEPSEEK_API_KEY=***
  ```

  ```bash Windows theme={null}
  setx DEEPSEEK_API_KEY ***
  ```
</CodeGroup>

## Example

Use `DeepSeek` with your `Agent`:

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  ```python agent.py theme={null}
  from phi.agent import Agent, RunResponse
  from phi.model.deepseek import DeepSeekChat

  agent = Agent(model=DeepSeekChat(), markdown=True)

  # Get the response in a variable
  # run: RunResponse = agent.run("Share a 2 sentence horror story.")
  # print(run.content)

  # Print the response in the terminal
  agent.print_response("Share a 2 sentence horror story.")

  ```
</CodeGroup>

## Params

<Snippet file="model-deepseek-params.mdx" />

DeepSeek also supports the params of [OpenAI](/models/openai).