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How To Install And Use DeepSeek R-1 In Your Local PC

Jim Clyde Monge
Generative AI
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7 min readJan 24, 2025
How To Install DeepSeek R-1 In Your Local PC And Use Locally
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Everyone seems to be talking about DeepSeek R-1, the new open-source AI language model made by a Chinese AI firm, DeepSeek. Some users claim it’s on par with, or even better than, OpenAI’s o1 in terms of reasoning capabilities.

Currently, DeepSeek is free to use, which is great news for users, but it does raise some questions. With the surge in user volume, how are they managing the server costs?

Hardware running costs cannot be cheap, right?

The one logical here would be — data. Data is the lifeblood of AI models. They’re probably collecting user data in some way that benefits their quant trading model or for some other form of monetization.

So, if you’re concerned about data privacy but still still want to use R1 without sharing your data, the best way is to run the model locally.

What is DeepSeek R-1?

A couple of days back, Deepseek R-1 was unveiled as a fully open-sourced model, meaning anyone can take the underlying codebase, adapt it, and even fine-tune it to their own needs.

From a technical standpoint, Deepseek R-1 (often abbreviated as R1) stems from a large base model called DeepSeek-V3. The lab then refined this model through a combination of supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on…

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