if someone wants to run the real thing (R1) locally, someone posted their hardware specs on X. Total cost: $6,000.

[0] direct link with login https://x.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106

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That's not DeepSeek, it's a Qwen or Llama model distilled from DeepSeek. Not the same thing at all.

I am doing the same.