[bko]

This is exciting.

Is there a free version of DeepSeek R1 that's completely US based, so we're not sending data to China? I guess you can use this to deploy it, but I'm asking for an application that would be safer to use if you're concerned about Chinese influence.

[breadwinner]

You can run it yourself: https://workos.com/blog/how-to-run-deepseek-r1-locally

[TuxSH]

Distilled R1 models != R1

[roblabla]

You can run the full R1 (671B variant) locally as well so long as you have the hardware for it.

`ollama run deepseek-r1:671b`

will do that

[SkyPuncher]

> long as you have the hardware for it.

You mean $100k in GPUs?

[roblabla]

The full model can run on setups worth less than $10K. Here's for instance a $6K build[0].

Granted, that's still expensive, but it is within the realm of something a hobbyist could put together.

[0]: https://x.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106

[TuxSH]

Yeah I mean, most users won't. Sorry if I got on the defensive, saw a bit too many posts on social media claiming you could run the model on your consumer-grade GPU.

[mlboss]

https://www.together.ai/pricing