Got the impression that a bazillion dollar's worth of GPUs are required to run a cutting-edge chatbot? Think again. Matthew Carrigan, an engineer at AI tools outfit HuggingFace, claims that you can run the hot new DeepSeek R1 LLM on just $6,000 of PC hardware. The kicker? You don't even need a high-end GPU.
Carrigan's suggested build involves a dual-socket AMD EPYC motherboard and a couple of compatible AMD chips to go with it. Apparently, the spec of the CPUs isn't actually that critical. Instead, it's all about the memory.
