You can run 'em locally, tho, if their gh page is to be believed. And this way you can make sure nothing gets even sent to their servers, and not just believe nothing is processed.
I got it running with ollama locally, works as advertised
https://medium.com/@pedro.aquino.se/how-to-install-and-use-deepseek-r1-a-free-and-privacy-first-alternative-to-openai-save-c838d2e5e04a
You can run 'em locally, tho, if their gh page is to be believed. And this way you can make sure nothing gets even sent to their servers, and not just believe nothing is processed.
I got it running with ollama locally, works as advertised
https://medium.com/@pedro.aquino.se/how-to-install-and-use-deepseek-r1-a-free-and-privacy-first-alternative-to-openai-save-c838d2e5e04a