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Setting up and using DeepSeek on your local computer.

DeepSeek is a Chinese AI startup that has recently gained some attention for developing advanced AI models that rival those of leading companies like OpenAI and Google in a number of benchmarks as illustrated below. 

DeepSeek benchmark
DeepSeek Release Paper

DeepSeek has also open-sourced DeepSeek-R1-Zero, DeepSeek-R1, and six dense models distilled from DeepSeek-R1 based on Llama and Qwen. An easier way of setting up DeepSeek on your local computer is using Open WebUI and Ollama 

 

Step One

Go to Ollama and select the correct build depending on your operating system. In our case we selected Linux and installed. You might need to install curl  just in case you did not have it set up already.

Ollama select screen

Run the following commmand on your Terminal: 

curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh

 

Terminal window

 

On Windows

Click on the Windows option and download the set up

 

On Mac

Click on the Mac option and download and set up.

Ollama Mac

 

Alternatively, if you have brew set up. Run the following command on your Terminal window:

brew install ollama

 

Step Two

Go to Ollama models and select model that would work for you. In our case we selected the deepseek-r1:1.5b but feel free to pick any of the models depending on the kind of computer you will be using.

Go to the Terminal window and type ollama run deepseek-r1:1.5b

 

Terminal

 

On Windows

Open Windows PowerShell and run the same command ollama run deepseek-r1:1.5b

Windows PowerShell Ollama

 

On Mac

Open Terminal and run the same command ollama run deepseek-r1:1.5b

 

Ollama Mac Terminal

 

DeepSeek installed, without browser interface

At this point you can start prompting DeepSeek on the Terminal. If you prefer to use a browser window instead, please proceed to Step Three below.

Using DeepSeek in terminal window

 

Step Three

We will need to set up the web user interface using Open WebUI. To do so, ensure you have Docker set up and running. Type the following command on your terminal window.

docker run -d --network=host -v open-webui:/app/backend/data -e OLLAMA_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:11434 --name open-webui --restart always ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main

 

Step Four

Open http://localhost:8080/ on your browser and start making those prompts.

Open WebUI

YouTube Video

Also find the YouTube video below that demonstrates what has been explained above..

Conclusion

It is our hope the above guidelines were helpful to your DeepSeek journey. Don’t hesitate to send us a Chat or shoot us an email in any case you might be having queries. Additionally, we’d love to hear your feedback. Please take a moment to leave us a review on Google—it really helps us grow!

 

 

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