alt Hacker NewsDeepseek flash is open weight, this means we can download and run that model without any connection to deepseek, no data/tokens/usage data ever reaches them. They cannot make us their product.
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ekianjo • today at 2:46 PM
Running Ds flash at acceptable speeds is challenging unless you have several thousands of dollars to invest
All those random api providers are absolutely scooping up your data though. And the hardware to run it locally is absurdly expensive.