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DeepSeek with R1 is a phenomenal free product as long as the servers are not busy. Anyone else use it a lot and have some hacks/tips?

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VC since seven years who likes to write stuff at https://caz.pub

if you don’t want to spin up your own server to run the 671gb model, check out @venice-ai (staking VVV gives you a certain amount of free inference credits), otherwise you can run a distilled version locally (I’m running the 16b one and could probs get away with the 32b on my 96gb mac laptop)

building apps for fun again. before times: airbnb coinbase ycombinator uc berkeley.

I haven’t used it via API yet although I have some compute units as a staker, but it’s essentially a host for the top open source models including Deepseek 671B and Flux.