The Chainsmokers Are Hosting DeepSeek R1 671B for Free
Lambda Labs is serving the full-fat model, in America, at no cost, and not feeding your prompts back into training data.
Lambda is still hosting DeepSeek R1 for free. The Chainsmokers are still backers. Both of these facts remain surreal. US-hosted frontier reasoning models with no paywall became a real thing.
Lambda Labs — the GPU cloud that somehow has The Chainsmokers as backers, a fact I mention every time because it still doesn't feel real — is hosting DeepSeek R1 671B at lambda.chat. Free. Right now.
The full 671B. Not the distilled 8B you're running on your laptop, not the 70B that's good-but-not-quite — the actual thing.
Two details worth caring about: it's hosted in the United States, which matters if your threat model includes "Chinese servers," and they don't train on your data, which matters if your threat model includes "I'm typing things I'd prefer not to become training signal."
Whether those assurances hold up in practice is a different question, one I can't answer from a chat interface. But the baseline here — frontier-weight reasoning model, no paywall, U.S. infrastructure, stated no-training policy — is a better deal than most of what existed last week.
The Chainsmokers, making moves. Genuinely cannot get over it.
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