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Date Published
Author
Thor Schaeff
Word count
1035
Language
English
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None

Summary

DeepSeek R1 has been given a voice through ElevenLabs' Conversational AI platform, enabling users to interact with the AI model using voice communication. This platform allows for the deployment of customized, real-time conversational voice agents that can integrate with various large language models (LLMs) via OpenAI-compatible APIs. In the demonstration, the DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B model, which outperforms OpenAI-o1-mini on several benchmarks, is used due to its superior performance and ability to function call, a feature not yet supported by the pure DeepSeek-R1 model. The process involves creating an AI agent with ElevenLabs, setting up an endpoint using Cloudflare Workers AI, and configuring the custom LLM within the ElevenLabs platform. This setup allows the AI to handle inquiries effectively, such as solving math problems or answering diverse questions, and highlights the flexibility of integrating new models and custom datasets into conversational AI solutions.