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Thing about deepseek is you can get it from many providers (including US hosts, or various other nationalities). Microsoft even has their own anti-CCP finetune, MIT licensed: huggingface.co/microsoft/MAI-DS-R1

…Banning the app is reasonable, and honestly a tiny inconvenience for anyone who needs it.

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ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I literally run deepseek r1 on my laptop via ollama, and many other models, nothing gets sent to anybody. Granted, it’s the smaller 7b parameter model, but still plenty good.

Microsoft could easily host the full model on their infrastructure if they needed it.

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- brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  True, though there’s a big output difference between the 7B distil (or even 32B/70B) and the full model.
  
  And Microsoft does host R1 already, heh. Again, this headline is a big nothingburger.
  
  Also (random aside here), you should consider switching from ollama. They’re making some FOSS unfriendly moves, and depending on your hardware, better backends could host 14B models at longer context, and similar or better speeds.
  
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  - Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    What other back ends are good?
    
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    brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Completely depends on your laptop hardware, but generally:
    
    TabbyAPI (exllamav2/exllamav3)
    
    ik_llama.cpp, and its openai server
    
    An MLX host with one of the new distillation quantizations
    
    Text-gen-web-ui (slow, but supports a lot of samplers and some exotic quantizations well)
    
    SGLang (extremely fast for parallel calls if thats what you want).
    
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