Building a DeepSeek request
Throughout the course, you'll write Python code to prompt DeepSeek models via the openai library. Entering your own API key is not necessary to create requests and complete the exercises in this course.
The OpenAI class has already been imported for you from the openai library.
Please note that although base_url is set to "https://api.together.xyz/v1" , the official DeepSeek API, the requests in these exercises are actually being rerouted to together.ai's API.
This exercise is part of the course
Working with DeepSeek in Python
Exercise instructions
- Create an
OpenAIAPI client (keep<TogetherAI API Key>unchanged). createa request for the"deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3"model to the Chat Completions endpoint.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Create the OpenAI client
client = ____(api_key="", base_url="https://api.together.xyz/v1")
# Create a request to the chat model
response = client.chat.completions.____(
model="deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3",
max_tokens=200,
messages=[
{"role": "user",
"content": "Write a polite reply accepting an AI Engineer job offer. Only output the reply."}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)