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DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence company founded in 2023The company specializes in developing open-source large language models (LLMs) and has rapidly gained attention for its innovative and cost-effective AI solutions.
In January 2025, DeepSeek released its first free chatbot app, based on the DeepSeek-R1 model, for iOS and Android platforms. By late January, this app had surpassed ChatGPT as the most-downloaded free app on the iOS App Store in the United States, leading to a significant impact on the stock market, including an 18% drop in Nvidia's share price.
DeepSeek's success is attributed to its efficient training methods, which achieve high performance at a fraction of the cost and computing power required by competitors. The company employs innovative techniques, such as the "mixture of experts" approach, which activates only the necessary computing resources for a given task, enhancing efficiency.
By making its AI models open-source, DeepSeek promotes transparency and collaboration within the AI community. This approach allows developers and researchers worldwide to access, modify, and build upon DeepSeek's technology, fostering innovation and potentially accelerating advancements in artificial intelligence.
how to run locally you need to down either LM studio or ollama
requirements
minimal 8gb ram recommend 16gb
minimal 4 cores recommend 8 cores
no GPU is required but it works a lot faster with one
In January 2025, DeepSeek released its first free chatbot app, based on the DeepSeek-R1 model, for iOS and Android platforms. By late January, this app had surpassed ChatGPT as the most-downloaded free app on the iOS App Store in the United States, leading to a significant impact on the stock market, including an 18% drop in Nvidia's share price.
DeepSeek's success is attributed to its efficient training methods, which achieve high performance at a fraction of the cost and computing power required by competitors. The company employs innovative techniques, such as the "mixture of experts" approach, which activates only the necessary computing resources for a given task, enhancing efficiency.
By making its AI models open-source, DeepSeek promotes transparency and collaboration within the AI community. This approach allows developers and researchers worldwide to access, modify, and build upon DeepSeek's technology, fostering innovation and potentially accelerating advancements in artificial intelligence.
how to run locally you need to down either LM studio or ollama
requirements
minimal 8gb ram recommend 16gb
minimal 4 cores recommend 8 cores
no GPU is required but it works a lot faster with one
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