Here's how you can run your own DeepSeek model directly on your computer.

Here's how you can run your own DeepSeek model directly on your computer. By running DeepSeek locally, you'll have full control over the model, which means that you'll have 100% privacy when using the AI and none of your data will be sent to any servers. This completely eliminates any worries you have about China potentially stealing your data or any other privacy concerns. So what you'll want to do is go to Ollama.com, and this program lets you run LLM models locally without any technical setup. Once you've downloaded Ollama onto your computer, you can head to their DeepSeek-R1 page, and they will show you all the different DeepSeek-R1 models that you can run directly on your computer. So the main DeepSeek model that everyone's using on the app and website is this R1-671B model. However, you probably don't have the resources required to run this because it needs hundreds of gigabytes of RAM. But that's where these distilled models come in, which are basically smaller versions of this main model that perform almost as well, but they require far less resources. So there's all of these different types of R1 models depending on your computer specs, and I'd say that most people should be able to run both the 1.5 and 7B models with no issues. So to run the 7B model, simply copy over this command, and then open up your computer's terminal, paste the command, click enter, and it will now download the model directly onto your computer. And once it's installed, you can now type prompts in, and you have DeepSeek directly on your computer. And like I mentioned, this is completely local, so that you don't need any internet connection, and once again, none of your data is being sent anywhere. It's all hosted locally on your own computer. Now, this is why people are so passionate about open source models compared to something like OpenAI's O1, because we can just download the AI models directly onto our computer and literally have DeepSeek at home. And make sure to follow for more daily AI content.