DeepSeek Has Been Free for a Year and a Half. This Month It Got Hands.
DeepSeek has been giving its models away since January 2025, so the free part is not the news. What arrived this month is the piece that lets it work inside your computer instead of behind a chat window. I went looking because I wanted to use it myself, and the answer to "is it free" turned out to have two halves.
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