DeepSeek in Practice

Appendix

It’s time to understand the different ways we can use the DeepSeek models.

This appendix is skippable if you have already figured out how you want to use DeepSeek.

But if not, we’ll show you some ways.

We will go over some of the (at the time of writing) most popular ways of running some of the main models released by the Chinese AI lab.

We will cover the following ways to use DeepSeek:

• Getting started with the official DeepSeek API
• Using common third-party APIs
• Working with Cursor’s IDE for DeepSeek
• Running or deploying DeepSeek yourself
• Building your own setup for DeepSeek

Technical requirements

The following will need to be installed:

• Recall from Chapter 5 that we will be using uv for Python examples when working with the DeepSeek ...