diff --git a/unsloth/registry/_deepseek.py b/unsloth/registry/_deepseek.py
index bd0ea31cbf..b3bf398cf1 100644
--- a/unsloth/registry/_deepseek.py
+++ b/unsloth/registry/_deepseek.py
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ from unsloth.registry.registry import ModelInfo, ModelMeta, QuantType, _register
 
 _IS_DEEPSEEKV3_REGISTERED = False
 _IS_DEEPSEEKR1_REGISTERED = False
-
+_IS_DEEPSEEKR1_ZERO_REGISTERED = False
+_IS_DEEPSEEKR1_DISTILL_REGISTERED = False
 class DeepseekV3ModelInfo(ModelInfo):
     @classmethod
     def construct_model_name(cls, base_name, version, size, quant_type, instruct_tag):
@@ -15,6 +16,8 @@ class DeepseekR1ModelInfo(ModelInfo):
     @classmethod
     def construct_model_name(cls, base_name, version, size, quant_type, instruct_tag):
         key = f"{base_name}-{version}" if version else base_name
+        if size:
+            key = f"{key}-{size}B"
         key = cls.append_instruct_tag(key, instruct_tag)
         key = cls.append_quant_type(key, quant_type)
         return key
@@ -63,6 +66,28 @@ DeepseekR1ZeroMeta = ModelMeta(
     is_multimodal=False,
     quant_types=[QuantType.NONE, QuantType.GGUF],
 )
+
+DeepseekR1DistillMeta = ModelMeta(
+    org="deepseek-ai",
+    base_name="DeepSeek-R1-Distill",
+    instruct_tags=[None],
+    model_version="Llama",
+    model_sizes=["8", "70"],
+    model_info_cls=DeepseekR1ModelInfo,
+    is_multimodal=False,
+    quant_types={"8": [QuantType.UNSLOTH, QuantType.GGUF], "70": [QuantType.GGUF]},
+)
+
+        # "Qwen-7B-unsloth-bnb-4bit",
+        # "Qwen-1.5B-unsloth-bnb-4bit",
+        # "Qwen-32B-GGUF",
+        # "Llama-8B-GGUF",
+        # "Qwen-14B-GGUF",
+        # "Qwen-32B-bnb-4bit",
+        # "Qwen-1.5B-GGUF",
+        # "Qwen-14B-unsloth-bnb-4bit",
+        # "Llama-70B-GGUF"
+
 def register_deepseek_v3_models(include_original_model: bool = False):
     global _IS_DEEPSEEKV3_REGISTERED
     if _IS_DEEPSEEKV3_REGISTERED:
@@ -78,11 +103,22 @@ def register_deepseek_r1_models(include_original_model: bool = False):
         return
     _register_models(DeepseekR1Meta, include_original_model=include_original_model)
     _register_models(DeepseekR1ZeroMeta, include_original_model=include_original_model)
+    _register_models(DeepseekR1DistillMeta, include_original_model=include_original_model)
     _IS_DEEPSEEKR1_REGISTERED = True
 
 #register_deepseek_v3_models(include_original_model=True)
 register_deepseek_r1_models(include_original_model=True)
 
+def _list_deepseek_r1_distill_models():
+    from unsloth.utils.hf_hub import ModelInfo as HfModelInfo
+    from unsloth.utils.hf_hub import list_models
+    models: list[HfModelInfo] = list_models(author="unsloth", search="Distill")
+    for model in models:
+        model_id = model.id
+        model_name = model_id.split("/")[-1]
+        # parse out only the version
+        version = model_name.removeprefix("DeepSeek-R1-Distill-")
+        print(version)
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     from unsloth.registry.registry import MODEL_REGISTRY, _check_model_info
diff --git a/unsloth/utils/hf_hub.py b/unsloth/utils/hf_hub.py
index da3f72a18e..30255b8636 100644
--- a/unsloth/utils/hf_hub.py
+++ b/unsloth/utils/hf_hub.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from huggingface_hub import HfApi, ModelInfo
 
-api: HfApi
+_HFAPI: HfApi = None
 
 POPULARITY_PROPERTIES = [
     "downloads",
@@ -32,27 +32,27 @@ def get_model_info(
     Default properties: ["safetensors", "lastModified"], only retrieves minimal information.
     Set to None to retrieve the full model information.
     """
-    global api
-    if api is None:
-        api = HfApi()
+    global _HFAPI
+    if _HFAPI is None:
+        _HFAPI = HfApi()
     try:
-        model_info: ModelInfo = api.model_info(model_id, expand=properties)
+        model_info: ModelInfo = _HFAPI.model_info(model_id, expand=properties)
     except Exception as e:
         print(f"Error getting model info for {model_id}: {e}")
         model_info = None
     return model_info
 
 
-def retrieve_models(
+def list_models(
     properties: list[str] = None,
     full: bool = False,
     sort: str = "downloads",
     author: str = "unsloth",
     search: str = None,
     limit: int = 10,
-) -> ModelInfo:
+) -> list[ModelInfo]:
     """
-    Retrieve models from the Hugging Face Hub.
+    Retrieve model information from the Hugging Face Hub.
 
     properties: list[str] = See https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/api-ref/hf_hub/hf_api/list_models
     full: bool = Whether to retrieve the full model information, if True properties will be ignored.
@@ -61,13 +61,13 @@ def retrieve_models(
     search: str = The search query for filtering models.
 
     """
-    global api
-    if api is None:
-        api = HfApi()
+    global _HFAPI
+    if _HFAPI is None:
+        _HFAPI = HfApi()
     if full:
         properties = None
 
-    models: list[ModelInfo] = api.list_models(
+    models: list[ModelInfo] = _HFAPI.list_models(
         author=author,
         search=search,
         sort=sort,