Running DeepSeek R1 on Your Own (cheap) Hardware – The fast and easy way

[cwizou]

Maybe you should add "distills" to the title? As this is about installing Ollama to grab the 7b or 14b R1-Qwen-distills, not "R1".

[karmakaze]

"The fast and easy way" is also being oversold.

> Why Ollama? Because it makes running large language models actually easy.

> If it doesn’t work, fix your system. That’s not my problem.

[nkozyra]

Right, and fundamentally no different than running any other ollama model that can run reasonably on your local machine.

[BimJeam]

OK I understand now and will fix that title. Sorry for that inconvenience. My bad. :-/

[ghostie_plz]

> Unless you like unnecessary risks. In that case, go ahead, genius.

what an off-putting start

[Euphorbium]

I have R1:1.5B running on my 8gb ram M4 mac mini. Dont know where I would use it, as it is too weak to solve actual problems, but it does run.

[BimJeam]

Set up a local AI with DeepSeek R1 on a dedicated Linux machine using Ollama—no cloud, no subscriptions, just raw AI power at your fingertips.

[croes]

Ollama doesn’t run Deepseek, just distilled versions

[BimJeam]

Sorry if you guys get so overwhelmed with deepseek submissions these days. This will be my one and only in the next time. It is cool to have an anti-weight to all these pay models.

[ai-christianson]

Personally I don't get sick of it. There's a lot of hype around Deepseek specifically rn, but to run SOTA or near SOTA models locally is a huge deal, even if it's slow.

[assimpleaspossi]

Are there any security concerns over DeepSeek as there are over TikTok?

Saw this in the article

>I would not recommend running this on your main system. Unless you like unnecessary risks.

[croes]

The model itself can’t do anything bad despite giving false answers or block them.

Using hosted versions where host collects data or using a unknown software that runs the model is the risk.

[donclark]

I like this. However, I did not find any minimum specs or speed. Maybe I missed? Can some point me in the right direction please?

[throwaway638637]

This is what you would expect given the title