Today I learned I can run my very own DeepSeek R1 chatbot on just $6,000 of PC hardware and no megabucks Nvidia GPUs required
Got the impression that a bazillion dollar’s worth of GPUs are required to run a cutting-edge chatbot? Think again. Matthew Carrigan, an engineer at AI tools outfit HuggingFace, claims that you can run the hot new DeepSeek R1 LLM on just $6,000 of PC hardware. The kicker? You don’t even need a high-end GPU. Carrigan’s…