Article: https://proton.me/blog/deepseek
Calls it “Deepsneak”, failing to make it clear that the reason people love Deepseek is that you can download and it run it securely on any of your own private devices or servers - unlike most of the competing SOTA AIs.
I can’t speak for Proton, but the last couple weeks are showing some very clear biases coming out.
What are the minimum system requirements to run something like deepseek on your own computer in some kind of firewall container?
We’re running it at work on a Mac mini with 64GB RAM (48GB for the GPU), and while it’s a little slow, it works fine.
There are plenty of ways and they are all safe. Don’t think of DeepSeek as anything more than a (extremely large, like bigger than a AAA) videogame. It does take resources, e.g disk space and RAM and GPU VRAM (if you have some) but you can use “just” the weights and thus the executable might come from another project, an open-source one that will not “phone home” (assuming that’s your worry).
I detail this kind of things and more in https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence but to be more pragmatic I’d recommend
ollamawhich supports https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1So, assuming you have a relatively entry level computer you can install
ollamathenollama run deepseek-r1:1.5band try.FWIW I did just try
deepseek-r1:1.5b(the smallest model available viaollamatoday) and … not bad at all for 1.1Gb!It’s still AI BS generating slop without “thinking” at all … but from the few tests I ran, it might be one of the “least worst” smaller model I tried.