• theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
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    Hawley’s statement called DeepSeek “a data-harvesting, low-cost AI model that sparked international concern and sent American technology stocks plummeting.”

    data-harvesting

    ???

    It runs offline… using open-source software that provably does not collect or transmit any data…

    It is low-cost and out-competes American technology, though, true

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        Base models are general purpose language models, mainly useful for AI researchers and people who want to build on top of them.

        Instruct or chat models are chatbots. They are made by fine-tuning base models.

        The V3 models linked by OP are Deepseek’s non-reasoning models, similar to Claude or ChatGPT4o. These are the “normal” chatbots that reply with whatever comes to their mind. Deepseek also has a reasoning model, R1. Such models take time to “think” before supplying their final answer; they tend to give better performance for stuff like math problems, at the cost of being slower to get the answer.

        It should be mentioned that you probably won’t be able to run these models yourself unless you have a data center style rig with 4-5 GPUs. The Deepseek V3 and R1 models are chonky beasts. There are smaller “distilled” forms of R1 that are possible to run locally, though.

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        r1 is lightweight and optimized for local environments on a home PC. It’s supposed to be pretty good at programming and logic and kinda awkward at conversation.

        v3 is powerful and meant to run on cloud servers. It’s supposed to make for some pretty convincing conversations.

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          R1 isn’t really runnable with a home rig. You might be able to run a distilled version of the model though!

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            You’re absolutely right, I wasn’t trying to get that in-depth, which is why I said “lightweight and optimized,” instead of “when using a distilled version” because that raises more questions than it answers. But I probably overgeneralized by making it a blanket statement like that.

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              That likely is one of the distilled versions I’m talking about. R1 is 720 GB, and wouldn’t even fit into memory on a normal computer. Heck, even the 1.58-bit quant is 131GB, which is outside the range of a normal desktop PC.

              But I’m sure you know what version you’re running better than I do, so I’m not going to bother guessing.

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    It’s only a proposed bill (thankfully), but definitely one to keep an eye on.

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    Sooner or later we’re gonna have to bypass the Great Firewall of America by VPNing into China

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    People like this should not be a government representative. But I guess that’s the trend lately

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    God, I hate Hawley. He’s an embarrassment to my state.

    He doesn’t even live in Missouri.

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    That’s awesome! I didn’t know you could download an LLM and run it locally! That’s what I’m really interested in is something that’s on my side and not a conduit to Google, MS or other.

    I’m so glad Hawley proposed this bill or I wouldn’t have known that deepseek was open source and downloadable! I’ll have to go look for a download.

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      You need to think in Republican. Corporations are people up to the moment they commit a crime, at which point they are not people.