You can use it as an app or on the website. You can also run it locally on your computer but I don’t know system requirements.
Oh. Yes. Now I know what you’re talking about. I use it sometimes on my desktop via LM Studio.
My main use of AI/GPT, in general, is to help me code SQL and Excel.
The big plus of Deepseek is that it’s all local, so I can put proprietary code on there and not worry about it.
The big negative is that it’s nowhere near as good as chatgpt or Claude.ai.
It’s much slower, craps out much more frequently, and gives inferior code.
Right now, the “DeepSeek Coder v2 Lite Instruct” model won’t even load for me.
So, nice try, whomever put this together, but it’s not good enough.
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You’re using an old model.
Go on… 
ELI50
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The model you are using is based on DeepSeek V2. Deep Seek V3 and its reasoning model R1 are out now. Here are some benchmarks:
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DeepSeek has likely been trained using the larger AI models, so its going to be interesting to see how they are able to develop it further once they are unable to distillate.
I do not have enough GPU to run R1, and V3 signups are shut down right now.
However, Google’s “Gemini Flash Thinking Experimental” is free right now, in case anyone wants to play with a smart bot. It is just a couple clicks away.
I don’t think that it is all local. I think it might be both ways.
I saw a FB reel where the guy was saying some ethical hacking group found that Deepseek didn’t secure their database at all and that they were able to get in a see entire chats between people and Deepseek. They pointed that out to the company and it was immediately secured.
There is a local and a non-local version.
(As well as old versions)
Googling around a bit, it’s possible you could make your system vulnerable in the installation process, because it requires letting the installer run code on your machine. But there’s no evidence currently that it’s running malicious code.
OpenAI’s o1 model is also available for free with Copilot’s “Think Deeper” feature.
I was going to try it out but we just got a companywide message from legal that it’s blocked on all computers due to concerns with data usage, chat logs and “other things”
We can’t download anything executable onto our laptops without some pretty serious IT permissions.
I use my personal laptop when I try this sort of thing out.
Do US companies let people try out these programs on secure company laptops?
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Two of the companies I’ve worked for it was a “hell, no…except for the actuarial department…they run some crazy software and need to install/upgrade it without going through the IT maze.”
Computers in general, not just laptops
OpenAI’s o3-mini model is available in ChatGPT.
Well, this is not surprising.
I would be very careful using DeepSeek.
My prompt:
“Wednesday” is a weird word comparing the spelling to pronunciation. What’s up with that?
Response:
Yeah, Wednesday is one of those words that doesn’t quite sound like it looks. The odd spelling comes from its Old English roots: Wōdnesdæg, meaning “Woden’s day,” after the Norse god Odin (Woden in Old English). Over time, the pronunciation was simplified—people started dropping the first “d” sound, making it more like Wenz-day. But the spelling stayed stuck in the past, much like February, where the “r” often goes unpronounced.
English: making things harder than they need to be since forever.
I :ctm:’d
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I think it’s amusing they use the same graphic that you see for parliaments.
Maybe in the near future, when human intelligence is overshadowed by AGI, political parties will spend all their time arguing over how nice to be to them.
I think it takes more effort to think to not be polite with an AI.