Tiny DeepSeek 1.5B Models Run on $249 NVIDIA Jetson Nano | NextBigFuture.com
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Abstraction: DeepSeek R1 1.5B distilled model runs locally on sub-$250 edge hardware
Key points:
- DeepSeek R1 distilled 1.5B Qwen model runs on NVIDIA Jetson Nano with an Ollama backend and WebUI
- Jetson Nano specs: 128-core Maxwell GPU, 4GB LPDDR4, quad-core ARM Cortex-A57, up to 472 GFLOPS (FP16), 5-10W power
- Jetson Nano pricing ranges from ~$219-$400 new; older versions available on eBay for ~$99
- FP16 version of DeepSeek R1 1.5B tested and compared favorably against Mini Llama 3.1 1B
- Demonstrates viability of running capable reasoning models on inexpensive embedded AI hardware
Connections: Deepseek · Nvidia · Large Language Models · Edge Inference · Model Distillation
Source: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2025/01/tiny-deepseek-1-5b-models-run-on-99-nvidia-jetson-nano.html