DEEPSEEK SLOW DIVING
Les Pounder works with groups such as the Raspberry Pi Foundation to help boost people’s maker skills.
You can’t have missed the uproar of DeepSeek in the AI community. The minnow took on the big names in AI and caused stock prices to drop sharply, so over on Tom’s Hardware, I tested DeepSeek on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB of RAM. Now let me manage your expectations before we get too far. It ran really slowly. Using the R1:8b model, I asked DeepSeek to “write a python script to ask the user their name, save it to a variable called username, and then greet the user by their name 100 times”.