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Deepseek R1 now has almost 1M downloads in Ollama: https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1

That is a lot of people running their own models. OpenAI is probably is panic mode right now.




What is also interesting (and troubling to see) is all the AI influencers panicing and inventing conspiracy theories downplaying the engineering achievements of the team behind Deepseek. Catching up is always easier than cruising by having started from scratch.


most of those models aren’t r1


they are distillations of r1, and work fairly well given the modest hardware they need.




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