A few friends and I run Deepseek (and other LLMs) on some hardware we jointly own and offer endpoints to each other via VPN. Deepseek is a big step forward for

A few friends and I run Deepseek (and other LLMs) on some hardware we jointly own and offer endpoints to each other via VPN. Deepseek is a big step forward for open LLMs and is something I use when writing scripts that process lots of data because we've all split the capital to build the machine, but Claude was and still is a lot better than Deepseek in the kinds of day-to-day usage that I'm after. And with how cheap Gemini 2.0 is, I find myself considering whether to use my local LLMs even for data analysis. I realize that on benchmarks it appears R1 is very close to Sonnet 3.7, but in practice I use Sonnet 3.7 much more.