How to run DeepSeek R1 on Mac and Windows for free

DeepSeek quickly rose to the top of the App Store these days, becoming the most downloaded iPhone app and dethroning ChatGPT. That's not a surprise if you've followed the genAI space for the past couple of years. AI apps can go viral, and the Chinese app did that after news spread that DeepSeek R1 is a reasoning AI as good as ChatGPT o1 and costs only a fraction to train.

The same news tanked the US market, as investors panic-sold hundreds of billions worth of stock on Monday, fearing that AI hardware from NVIDIA and others would not be as important to developing good AI. Those fears were largely exaggerated, and the market will recover.

With all that in mind, I can't blame you if you want to try DeepSeek and see what it's all about. However, I'll remind you again of the two big reasons why you should avoid the Chinese AI software.

First, all your data goes to China, and there's no telling what happens with it, despite the seemingly solid privacy policy DeepSeek put in place.

Second, the DeepSeek training instructions include plenty of censorship, which happens in real-time.

There is one way to try DeepSeek safely and without the censorship built-in instructions in place, but that involves installing DeepSeek on your PC. However, running DeepSeek locally on your Windows, Mac, or Linux computer is incredibly easy and will cost you nothing.

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