What is Deepseek Coder and how does it compare to CodeLlama?

Deepseek Coder is a family of open-source code-focused LLMs from DeepSeek AI that outperforms CodeLlama on most coding benchmarks, especially for Python, JavaScript, and C++. Deepseek Coder v2 (236B MoE) rivals GPT-4 in many code tasks. CodeLlama from Meta was groundbreaking when released but Deepseek Coder has largely surpassed it. For local use via Ollama, Deepseek Coder 6.7B or 33B are the most practical sizes.