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Do you have a cluster with 10 A100 lying around? Because that’s what it gets to run deepseek.
It is open source, but it is far from accessible to run on your own hardware.
I run quantized versions on deepseek that are usable enough for chat, and it’s on a home set that is so old and slow by today’s standards I won’t even mention the specs lol. Let’s just say the rig is from 2018 and it wasn’t near the best even back then.
I have a Ryzen 7800 gaming destkop, RTX 3090, and 128GB DDR5. Nothing that unreasonable. And I can run the full GLM 4.6 with quite acceptable token divergence compared to the unquantized model, see: https://huggingface.co/Downtown-Case/GLM-4.6-128GB-RAM-IK-GGUF
If I had a EPYC/Threadripper homelab, I could run Deepseek the same way.
Yes, that’s true. It is resource-intensive, but unlike other capable LLMs, it is somewhat possible—not for most private individuals due to the requirements, but for companies with the necessary budget.
They’re overestimating the costs. 4x H100 and 512GB DDR4 will run the full DeepSeek-R1 model, that’s about $100k of GPU and $7k of RAM. It’s not something you’re going to have in your homelab (for a few years at least) but it’s well within the budget of a hobbyist group or moderately sized local business.
Since it’s an open weights model, people have created quantized versions of the model. The resulting models can have much less parameters and that makes their RAM requirements a lot lower.
You can run quantized versions of DeepSeek-R1 locally. I’m running deepseek-r1-0528-qwen3-8b on a machine with an NVIDIA 3080 12GB and 64GB RAM. Unless you pay for an AI service and are using their flagship models, it’s pretty indistinguishable from the full model.
If you’re coding or doing other tasks that push AI it’ll stumble more often, but for a ‘ChatGPT’ style interaction you couldn’t tell the difference between it and ChatGPT.
Do you have a cluster with 10 A100 lying around? Because that’s what it gets to run deepseek. It is open source, but it is far from accessible to run on your own hardware.
I run quantized versions on deepseek that are usable enough for chat, and it’s on a home set that is so old and slow by today’s standards I won’t even mention the specs lol. Let’s just say the rig is from 2018 and it wasn’t near the best even back then.
That’s not strictly true.
I have a Ryzen 7800 gaming destkop, RTX 3090, and 128GB DDR5. Nothing that unreasonable. And I can run the full GLM 4.6 with quite acceptable token divergence compared to the unquantized model, see: https://huggingface.co/Downtown-Case/GLM-4.6-128GB-RAM-IK-GGUF
If I had a EPYC/Threadripper homelab, I could run Deepseek the same way.
Yes, that’s true. It is resource-intensive, but unlike other capable LLMs, it is somewhat possible—not for most private individuals due to the requirements, but for companies with the necessary budget.
They’re overestimating the costs. 4x H100 and 512GB DDR4 will run the full DeepSeek-R1 model, that’s about $100k of GPU and $7k of RAM. It’s not something you’re going to have in your homelab (for a few years at least) but it’s well within the budget of a hobbyist group or moderately sized local business.
Since it’s an open weights model, people have created quantized versions of the model. The resulting models can have much less parameters and that makes their RAM requirements a lot lower.
You can run quantized versions of DeepSeek-R1 locally. I’m running deepseek-r1-0528-qwen3-8b on a machine with an NVIDIA 3080 12GB and 64GB RAM. Unless you pay for an AI service and are using their flagship models, it’s pretty indistinguishable from the full model.
If you’re coding or doing other tasks that push AI it’ll stumble more often, but for a ‘ChatGPT’ style interaction you couldn’t tell the difference between it and ChatGPT.
You should be running hybrid inference of GLM Air with a setup like that. Qwen 8B is kinda obsolete.
I dunno what kind of speeds you absolutely need, but I bet you could get at least 12 tokens/s.