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response = client.chat.completions.create( <br /> model=”deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-0528-maas”, <br /> messages=[ <br /> {“role”: “system”, “content”: “You are a helpful assistant”}, <br /> {“role”: “user”, “content”: “How many r’s are in strawberry ?”}, <br /> ], <br /> stream=False, <br /> ) <br /> <br /> print(response.choices[0].message.content) <br /> <br /> # ChatCompletion(“id=”””, <br /> # “choices=”[ <br /> # “Choice(finish_reason=””length”, <br /> # index=0, <br /> # “logprobs=None”, <br /> # “message=ChatCompletionMessage(content=””<think>\nFirst, the question is: \”How many r\\’s are in strawberry?\” I need to count the number of times the letter \\’r\\’ appears in the word \”strawberry\”.\n\nLet me write down the word: S-T-R-A”, <br /> # “refusal=None”, <br /> # “role=””assistant”, <br /> # “annotations=None”, <br /> # “audio=None”, <br /> # “function_call=None”, <br /> # “tool_calls=None))” <br /> # ], <br /> # created=, <br /> # “model=””deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-0528-maas”, <br /> # “object=””chat.completion”, <br /> # “service_tier=None”, <br /> # “system_fingerprint=”””, <br /> # usage=CompletionUsage(completion_tokens=50, <br /> # prompt_tokens=18, <br /> # total_tokens=68, <br /> # “completion_tokens_details=None”, <br /> # “prompt_tokens_details=None))”</think>