DeepSeek-R1 Crash Course

Learn how to use DeepSeek-R1 in this crash course for beginners. Learn about the innovative reinforcement learning approach that powers DeepSeek-R1, exploring how it achieves performance comparable to industry giants like OpenAI's o1, but at a fraction of the cost. You'll learn about its architecture, practical applications, and how to deploy this model to leverage its advanced reasoning skills for your own projects. ✏️ Course developed by Andrew Brown from ‪@ExamProChannel‬ . ❤️ Support for this channel comes from our friends at Scrimba – the coding platform that's reinvented interactive learning: https://scrimba.com/freecodecamp ⭐️ Contents ⭐️ 00:00 Introduction 01:01 DeepSeek Overview 06:13 DeepSeek.com V3 15:36 DeepSeek R1 via Ollama 15:36 DeepSeek R1 via LMStudio 52:12 DeepSeek via Hugging Face Transformers 1:26:06 Thoughts and Conclusions 🎉 Thanks to our Champion and Sponsor supporters: 👾 Drake Milly 👾 Ulises Moralez 👾 Goddard Tan 👾 David MG 👾 Matthew Springman 👾 Claudio 👾 Oscar R. 👾 jedi-or-sith 👾 Nattira Maneerat 👾 Justin Hual -- Learn to code for free and get a developer job: https://www.freecodecamp.org Read hundreds of articles on programming: https://freecodecamp.org/news