On: DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]

[twistedcheeslet]

How capable are these models at tool calling?

[segmondy → twistedcheeslet]

Depends on if they are trained for tool calling, this model is experimentation with new architecture, training methods, etc. It's not designed for tool calling. If you want to tool call, then you should look into DeepSeekv3.1-Terminus.

[potsandpans → twistedcheeslet]

From some very brief experimentation with deepseek about 2 months ago, tool calling is very hot or miss. Claude appears to be the absolute best.