Maybe they spent the marketing budget on lobbying ;)

Streisand effect is overstated, censorship/bans work.

What is a shell one-liner that downloads DeepSeek ?

If you have ollama installed and 404GB free space: ollama pull deepseek-r1:671b

Genuinely curious - if one did not have any tooling at all (other than curl or wget or fetch, etc.) is there a one-liner to download only the deepseek model ?

  git clone --mirror ... ?

Yes, you need git with git lfs. Then just: `git clone https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1`

  ssh [email protected] git lfs install
  Password:
  Git LFS initialized.

... so far so good ...

  ssh [email protected] git clone https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
  Password:
  Cloning into 'DeepSeek-R1'...

... success.

Done in the spirit of the Streisand Effect but I suppose the protest is watered down by the fact that this account is in Zurich ...

You probably want the GGUF versions, though, which are the ones you can actually run on reasonable hardware.

Full R1 version here: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF/tree/main/De...

Various smaller versions: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF/tree/main

There is also a 'BF16' version on that page with 16-bit weights, but I don't understand what it is or where it came from, given that the original model is FP8-native.

Ollama has underlying plain URLs but they are parts so you'd need something to combine them. But you can use curl.

Otherwise a docker one liner to run ollama should do it.

Docker is a "core util" right.

If you have ollama:

  ollama run deepseek-r1:671b

That is 404GB, but there are smaller versions too.

AstonJ explained on DevTalk [1] how to download and run DeepSeek using LM Studio.

[1] https://forum.devtalk.com/t/how-to-run-deepseek-on-your-mac-...

ollama pull deepseek-r1:671b

Would be one option...