Getting Started with DeepSeek (and Handling Your Data Carefully)
DeepSeek offers a hosted app and downloadable open-weight models. Learn the difference, why it matters for privacy, and a safe way to try it.
DeepSeek is an AI company known for strong reasoning models and for publishing some of its models as open weights that anyone can download. That creates two very different ways to use "DeepSeek", and the privacy picture is completely different for each. This guide explains both, so you can try it without accidentally sending data somewhere you did not intend.
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