Conglomerates block access to DeepSeek amid security woes

That's kind of funny, yes if you use their website you're sending your data to china, but they also literary give you the model so you can run it on your own hardware.

Anyway that's what I'm doing, running the 14B DeepSeek-r1 model on my RTX 3060, it fits nicely into the 12 GB VRAM and is reasonably fast. The accuracy, nja it's so so.