Building a Local AI Chatbot with Ollama, DeepSeek-R1, and Open WebUI
In this post, I will show you how to set up a local AI chatbot using Ollama, DeepSeek-R1, and the Open WebUI. This approach offers flexibility, privacy, and control over your AI interactions without relying on cloud-based services. I’ll keep it simple and concise so we can quickly learn how to install Ollama, run LLM models like Llama 3.3 and DeepSeek-R1, and use the web interface to interact with the LLMs locally....