Deploying DeepSeek-R1-671B Locally
The DeepSeek-R1 LLM has strong reasoning capabilities and shows major gains on math, code, and natural language reasoning tasks. Official and third-party online services are all unstable to some degree, and data security and privacy are a concern, so self-hosting the open-source DeepSeek model is a good option for individuals and companies alike. This post walks through deploying and testing the full-parameter deepseek-r1-671b model. The same process also applies to deepseek-v3-671b and to the smaller versions.