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Is anyone actually surprised by this?

Just host it yourself?

Building my entire data model around the Tienanmen Square copypasta. I can run this thing on a Raspberry Pi plugged into a particularly starchy potato and it reliably returns the only answer I’ve thought to ask it.

your raspberry pi will burn if you want to host an ai model on it. you need a high end gamer pc with at least 32 gb ram and rtx 4090

You can’t just host the 632B model that the app uses lol

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You can run the smaller models on your desktop though

If you have the hardware, then yes, you can.

Ah, just acquire such hardware, very simple and anyone can do it without supply chain knowledge or advantage

Sorry but you are just talking assumptions without even having looked at the facts.

Its not cheap, but basically a single toptier gaming desktop with an additional graphics card (or 2) is literally all you need.

I know multiple people who work normal IT jobs that have already started on setting up their own. They plan on running them for their whole family, many users at a time from the same machine.

Here is someone who got it to work on a cluster of mac-minis. Again not cheap, but clearly within dedicated consumer enthusiast reach. https://digialps.com/deepseek-v3-on-m4-mac-blazing-fast-inference-on-apple-silicon/

And this is before even considering how fast open source moves, i am expecting quantized models which can have double speed for negligible quality impact any second now.

By extension, anything that’s not self hosted means 3rd party actors snooping. American, Chinese, whoever happens to operate that machine.

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