Yes, you can run DeepSeek completely offline by installing Ollama and downloading the model locally as discussed in this page. However, this setup requires high-performance hardware to manage the computational load effectively.

We know that Nvidia's powerful and expensive GPU chips are used for developing these types of powerful AI models. The US has banned Nvidia from exporting H100 GPU chips to China so that Chinese tech companies could not develop powerful AI models like OpenAI. USA tech giants thought that it was impossible to develop such powerful AI tools without Nvidia H100 GPU chips.

Despite these restrictions, DeepSeek has created a powerful model using the lower-power H800 chips similar to those recently available from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, which were created using powerful H100 chips. Less expensive chips are used in DeepSeek’s Chatbot, that’s why it’s cheaper, but its performance is the same as its rivals, which makes it very impressive.

Yes, DeepSeek Janus Pro 7B is the latest version, released to generate and read images.