Beginner-friendly DeepSeek guides for U.S. users covering access, cost, features, availability, privacy and responsible everyday use.
Last verified: October 8, 2026 DeepSeek is not generally banned for private users in the United States. As of this review, the official DeepSeek app remains listed in the U.S. Apple App Store and Google Play, and DeepSeek’s official website…
Last reviewed: October 16, 2026 Yes, you can run DeepSeek locally on Windows and Mac with Ollama. For this walkthrough, use a downloaded model from Ollama’s deepseek-r1 family rather than a DeepSeek hosted API identifier. After installing Ollama and checking…
Last verified: October 7, 2026 DeepSeek Harness is DeepSeek’s open-source agent harness for running AI agent workflows over files, code, tools, sessions, workspaces, and plugins. It is not a DeepSeek model, not the same thing as the DeepSeek API, and…
You can use DeepSeek with Codex directly by configuring DeepSeek as a custom model provider. Codex remains the coding-agent client that reads your repository, proposes edits, and runs tools under its permission controls. Supported model requests go to DeepSeek through…
Last verified: October 4, 2026 DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company and platform best known for building large language models, a consumer AI assistant, developer APIs, and open-weight model releases. People use the name “DeepSeek” in different ways: sometimes they…
Last verified: October 9, 2026 Is DeepSeek free? The practical answer is: the official DeepSeek app is listed as free on major app stores, but the DeepSeek API is paid. Some DeepSeek model weights are also available under permissive licenses,…