I'm so confused on deepseek. I don't understand what makes it open source when it seems to me some clients to access deepseek are open source, but you need to log in to use it. What's open source about it? I'm guessing none of this means you can run it locally, can you?
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yes, the code is there on github or you can use ollama and huggingface to download and run on your machine
As far as I understand, the training data is closed source. But, the methodology of training is open source which allows independent parties to recreate the model from scratch and see similar results. Not only can you download the full >400GB model using huggingface or ollama, but they also offer distilled versions of the model which are small enough to run on something like a raspberry pi. i'm running it locally on my machine at home with perplexica (perplexity.ai lookalike with searching capabilities)