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Specifying a DeepSeek model

OpenAI offers multiple models for different use cases. In this exercise, you'll specify the model and define the role to structure your API requests.

The OpenAI class has already been imported for you from the openai library.

This exercise is part of the course

Working with DeepSeek in Python

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Exercise instructions

  • Specify the deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 model.
  • Assign the correct role in the messages list.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

client = OpenAI(api_key="", base_url="https://api.together.xyz/v1")

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    # Specify the model
    model="____",
    max_tokens=200,
    messages=[
        # Assign the correct role
        {"role": "____", 
         "content": "Write a post to announce my new AI Engineer role on LinkedIn. Only output the post."}]
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)
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