Running DeepSeek Locally with Ollama

Step-by-step guide how to run LLM locally

Let’s be real — privacy is a big deal these days. When you chat with online AI tools like ChatGPT, your questions and data get sent to someone else’s computers. Not exactly ideal if you’re sharing sensitive info or just don’t like the idea of your conversations being stored on some company’s servers.

That’s where running AI models locally comes in. It’s like having your own personal AI assistant that keeps all your secrets. When you run models like DeepSeek on your own machine:

• Your data stays put — it never leaves your computer
• You’re in complete control
• Nobody’s logging or analyzing your conversations
• You can use it even when your internet is down (we’ve all been there!)

This is super helpful if you’re working with confidential stuff, don’t want your business ideas floating around in the cloud, or just value your privacy.

What’s DeepSeek, Anyway?

DeepSeek is basically a smart AI that can understand and generate text — kind of like ChatGPT or Claude, but one you can actually run on your own computer. It was created by DeepSeek AI and released as open-source, which means anyone can download and…