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Run DeepSeek-R1 Locally for Free in Just 3 Minutes!

Pavan Belagatti on January 29, 2025

DeepSeek-R1 has been creating quite a buzz in the AI community. Developed by a Chinese AI company DeepSeek, this model is being compared to OpenAI'...
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Aman Singh

What is the minimum Requirements of Hardware to run this?

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Pavan Belagatti

As you can see when you go to Llama website, you can run the different parameters of DeepSeek-R1. You can find the details of requirements here: ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1

You can run 1.5b, 7b, 8b, 14b, 32b, 70b, 671b and obviously the hardware requirements increase as you choose bigger parameter. I used 7b one in the above tutorial.

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Johnny

Maybe be clearer about that in the article. It is deceiving to not specifically say what model you are running. "Running R1 locally" sounds like you are running their best OpenAI o1 equivalent locally, which is not the case.

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Pavan Belagatti

It is the same but with less parameter one. Done. Updated the article with 7b.

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Moeed Anjum

Good one, it helped me a lot.

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Pavan Belagatti

Thanks for the summary.

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Muhamed-Kanapiya

is there GUi for local version?

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youssefma6

yeah there is one ! you can pair Ollama with Open WebUI – a graphical user interface (GUI) tool
just go to docs.openwebui.com

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Pavan Belagatti

No idea, need to check.

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Jody Elliott

MSTY.app is a great one and my favorite. LMStudio is nice as well.

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rakesh manchanda

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Paul Johnson

To be fair... As the other AIs what think of Donal trump

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Hi

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Ali Akbar

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Eugénio Correia

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