ULTIMATE DeepSeek Guide 2025 (How to use DeepSeek for beginners)

deep seek pretty much took Chad gbt out in one swift move it's got all the same killer reasoning but it's totally free the catch is prompton Works a bit differently than what we're used to with Chad gbt and in this video I'm going to give you the full rundown how deep seek Works show you how to run it locally pick the right model and of course drop a bunch of prompt examples you can use right away in any Niche stick around for the next 30 minutes and you will go from absolute newbie to deep seek Pro

to get going with deep seek AI the first thing you do is open up chad. deep seek. com ask you to create an account which is no big deal I just pick the Google options so I don't have to cook up some new password and try to remember it later once you're in you'll spot the main chat view the promp Box hangs out right in the center and below it are two toggles one for advanced reasoning that's the R1 model and another for web search you can activate them one at a time or both at once the web search is actually not working as I record this but I did test it out a while back and felt a lot like how Chad gbt handles web searches you also see a file upload button deep seek is multimodal and can handle various file types like text files spreadsheets stuff like that images work too but no videos no audio just yet look over at the left side and you'll see your list of all chats you can rename or delete each chat by clicking the three dots and choosing the option you want below that is a QR code button that lets you download the mobile app I will come back to that soon so I can show you how that works down at the bottom there's my profile and under that settings now this is where deep seek differs from Chad gbt because there really aren't any settings the only things you can change are the theme the interface language and you can delete your account that's it no custom instructions or anything else deep seek is just starting his journey but I'm sure it will be big just the fact that it performs almost as well as the all1 while taking it far fewer resources is mindboggling a year ago a model like this was impossible to run in anything but a supercomputer yet now you can run it on your own computer that's how fast the world of AI changes and it's so easy to miss something important if you want upto-date insights and new TOs like deep seek plus clear tips and guides on how to use them check out GE Academy we'll help you stay ahead practical no fluff info and once you're ready to connect with others our growing Community is right there for you join us and letm G Academy the biggest and most useful AI resource ever when you ask deep seek something it will split its response into two sections the great out part is it's thought process which is super cool to see you can literally watch the AI figuring things out the black text is the actual answer you can hide the thought process to make everything a bit neater but I like seeing how AI thinks next to each answer there are buttons to copy it regenerate it and rate it you might see deep seek certainly quit on you now and then happens pretty often because their servers are slammed get used to the server is busy please try again later message sometimes one simple regeneration fixes it other times you might have to sit tight for 3 to 5 minutes until things free up if you keep spamming the regenerate button too quickly you will get a warning about making too many

requests there are't that many things to do before starting chatting though I'd recommend installing the mobile app you can find the app in the ABS just scan the QR code the app looks and feels a lot like Chad gbt's app and in terms of features is really similar to the desktop version of Deep seek but I will tell you all about a bit

later before we get into prompt and tips let me brief you on all this stuff deep SE can do because prompt and tips are Universal and will work equally well in any scenario so deep seek can do General writing rephrasing rewriting ideation the basics we won't even stop at this right now next up can do file analysis but the files must be very specific text files doc X Files Exel spreadsheets images DC can extract text from files and images and then work on that text this is true both for the web version and the mobile web search like I told you earlier there is a special button for that but right now it's not working technically just enables web access since deep seeks knowledge could solof in 2023 with this turned on you'd be able to search for new news articles stocks and so on given that it actually works for you and coding deep seek is quite good at writing and code can be something simple as the web page layout in HTML or python code for creating graphs or even a game in JavaScript with the last example with specially cool is that you can preview the project right there in deep seek and the snake game created is actually playable now we need to install any libraries apps or anything technically you can even somehow make deep seek help you out with email and SMS marketing but for that I'd rather use something tried and tested like omnisend the sponsor of today's video omnisend is an e-commerce focused marketing automation platform that helps online Merchants capture leads and drive sales with gamified signup forms built in discount codes and abandoned cart reminders combines email SMS and push notifications so you can engage customers on their preferred Channels with Advanced segmentation real time analytics and 250 Plus customizable email templates omnisense delivers targeted campaigns that reflect your brand rate workflows cover in abandoned cars welcome series and browse abandonment are quick to set up and fully customizable no coding required the product picker lets you showcase items directly from your store and you can even collect and display product reviews for extra social proof users in every plan includ and free benefit from 24/7 email and live chat support if you're looking for a robust yet accessible way to grow your online business give omnis sand a try the link is down below now what makes deeps truly

unique is that you can run it locally even the biggest model and it's free to use so you pretty much can have your own Chad gb1 at home trained on your own data and tailored to do your specific tasks crazy now deep seek has these R1 models 1. 5b 7B 14b 32 and 70 each number basically tells you how powerful and resource hungry it is the 1. 5b model is super light and perfect if you just want quick answers or you're not rocking a super powerful setup then there is the 70 for slightly more complex stuff it's a nice jump up without getting too crazy then you've got 14b which handles bigger tasks and gives you more depth in responses for the really heavy workloads there's the 32b and for the absolute topof thee line tasks there's the 70b model that's where things get really intense so you will need a r that can keep up each model also has a specific storage size so be sure you've got enough space on your hard drive the 1. 5b sits at around 1. 1 GB 7B hits about 4. 7 gigs 14 B's around 9 the 32b lands at roughly 20 and the 70b model is a whooping 43 gigs as for Hardware 8 gigs of RAM can handle 1. 5b 16 gigs does the 7B 3 2 gigs is needed for 14b and once you get to 32 or 70b you are looking at 64 gigs or more I've noticed that the 14b model works best in the base 14in M4 Pro MacBook Pro good balance between performance and quality what I find extremely interesting is how deep seek managed to shake the whole AI Market with one single release this news is pretty much impossible to miss but there's a lot of other stuff happening in the world of AI so how do you stay informed welcome to geek Academy you're all in one hub for no fluff of AI training and instant value we could through the chaos and give you practical easy to follow guides checklists and tutorials so you can finally use AI to get Real Results not just watch cool demos on YouTube what's inside the academy simple PDF guides and checklists no jargon just stepbystep instructions you can follow today video and text lessons with audio commentary now this is an advanced prompting method learn at your own pace on your terms AI tool finder tells you exactly which AI tool to use for your project no more guess workor AI Trends updates stay in the loop and everything important in AI without sifting through the noise promt templates ready to go prompts to maximize Chad gbt Med journey and more exclusive partner discounts save big on AI TOs and software covering your membership cost and then some but our main mission is to give you the Practical resources you need to succeed period if you're ready to stop feeling overwhelmed at and start putting AI to work for your goals join the academy now let's make sure you're always ahead of the curve without distress and confusion see you

inside the way you prompt for deep seek might seem familiar but has a few caveats like languages as words all prompting must be done in either English or Chinese all other languages work through a translation layer and the results can be severely unreliable if you need the response in another language than these two can always ask deep seek to translate it into the language you want but the inal response must be in English or Chinese and it's better to state in your prompt the language that you want the response to use like I did here if you've watched our Claud video

you saw that it was quite keen on formatting deep seek goes even further bringing back the times when you had to format prompts in a specific way if you want multiple constraints or a technical Style throw in some formatting to separate your thinking from what you actually want in the final output but if you just have a quick question no need to go all out with styling there are three formatting styles to choose from markdown think and answer and conversational the last one is the simplest just write prompts like it would say to regular person or any other AI markdown requires you to separate prompts into separate blocks each with a keyword at the beginning explaining to the AI what part of instructions it sees below like in this prompt I used go and constraints to explain what deep seek must do and what the limitations are you can divide your prompts into as many separate blocks as you want the more the better deep seek is not as advanced as Chad gbt and even though it's reasoning looks great still can struggle with understanding prompts correctly the third way is think and answer this pretty much means you separate background instructions from the final request with tags like thank and answer the thank part is basically your blueprint and answer is where you request the final output close and tags are also necessary here for each

part just like any other AI deep seeks responses can be only as good as your prompts so the first order of business I have for you is being extra specific I know you've heard all this before keep in mind that deep seek actually needs this try to include as much detail into your prompts what you want why who you are time topic length the more info you give the better the answers vague prompts lead to vague answers check out my prompt I clearly State an objective for deep seek then I share an image a target audience so that the language would be tailored to influence those people after that I give a specific word count and specify the language even gives me the word count at the end which I find especially useful because Chad gbt refuses to do that most of the

time if you're tackling a complex task that involves lots of reasoning and actions it's always better to break these complex tasks into actionable steps you have to be a guide basically carefully orchestrating and Engineering the way deep seek is going to approach the task you can give steps directly or just mention that you want deep seek to approach it step by step pick your poison in my prompt I'm given a rough outline of the outline if that makes sense also I'm using the thinkk and answer formatting for better results the end result follows my instructions perfectly and the outline I got looks really nice exactly what I wanted the impact of this tip is visible even with such small tasks and as they get more complex you will see an even bigger difference ultimately for the most perfect results you'd have to use all the prompt and tips I will give you in one prompt but trust me it won't be super difficult to

do deep seek being a reasoning focused model also has an ability to self-reflect it doesn't have to be SE sear prompt can all be in the same prompt like I did here after asking for a short strategy I ask it to list one possible challenge or risk even though it's a short question it explicitly asks for risk assessment that extra nudge can help R1 give a more complete realistic plan instead of just the highlights deep seek doesn't just invent stuff but actually analyzes everything and assesses all the possible scenarios here are a few ideas of how to ask R1 to self-reflect then mention possible risks review your idea for errors or highlight

potential weaknesses now if you're looking for multiple Solutions or maybe you want to compare different paths tell in R1 to produce two or three approaches is what you should do just type something like uh give me variety let me see options you might also phrase it like compare a and b or give me three ways to do X for example if you're training for 5K run you could use something like this task provide two ways to train for a 5K run one quick high-intensity approach two slower endurance building approach additional end with one sentence explaining when each approach is most suitable that's a markdown style prompt where you clearly split up the tasks two methods plus a final note comparing them if you just said how do I train for a 5K run you'd probably ghetto one size fits all answer but by asking for two approaches you will see different angles Maybe one focusing on speed drills and another focusing on steady endurance and the final line ties it all together showing which approach fits which type of Runner the more specifically you ask for self checks like identifying risks or different approaches like comparon options the more interesting and practical the answers get you're basically guiding the AI to step out of a single track answer and consider multiple perspectives or possibilities

the first response is rarely spot-on so it's perfectly normal to keep nudin R1 for a better style length or more laser focused content you can just say something like that was too formal make it more casual and let the model do a quick revamp for example if you ask this and if the result feels stiff or a little off Target you can immediately follow up with can you revise it to be more playful this back and forth basically the secret sauce to get an truly awesome answer so don't hesitate to tweak it until it sounds just

right another handy approach is having deep seek take on a certain role or Persona when you tell it to act as a career celor it's more likely to get into a mindset that talks about scale gaps highing Trends and so forth making the advice more on point even if you're not using Advanced features a simple Persona prompt can shape the style and knowledge that shows up in the final response

response with some tasks you might want a bit more than just the plain answer you want to see how AI came to that conclusion you want some explanation so in this case you better use a markdown format in style and in your prompt ask for clarification and a more detailed response when asking to crunch some numbers I explicitly ask to show each step of your calculation and give the final answer in square feet and it did just that again my example is very simplistic but on bigger tasks the impact will be far more

noticeable sometimes when you're writing an email and don't know who's going to be for like for which department head or which manager it's better to use placeholders in your drafts to do this just ask use product name as a placeholder and then in the response the

placeholder will be placed everywhere where the name or product must be then you can just replace it in any text edor simple and easy one thing I love doing is setting up a pro cons list and then asking the model to pick the best option for a specific situation or to do a face off between two ideas any sort of comparison works wonders for improving reasoning and the quality of results for example let's say you're Torn Between Two vacation spots like a beach resort and a Mountain Lodge a good way to do it is by using those thank and answer text and the section list exactly what you want budget activities weather and specify that you want a final recommendation at the end based on let's say familyfriendly Vibe then in the answer section say keep it concise maybe under 100 Words and give me clear recommendation this approach delivers both the why Pros cons and the what your best pick in one package it's especially handy if you don't want to sift through a big wall of text you can just read the bullet points see which one fits your scenario best and call it a

day it's always a good idea to limit deep seek in terms of actions and reasoning you want it to perform if you don't want R1 to mention certain elements like advanced math or technical terms just say so the markdown prompting style here fits best in my opinion in the task section when asking for an explanation of how Wi-Fi works I said avoid using complex Network jargon or acronyms keep it in plain English under 70 words by using such explicit exclusions you pretty much guide the model to keep things more accessible and the result looks very simple easy to understand and overall better than the one I would have gotten without mentioning

exclusions like I mentioned at the beginning of this video deep SE can analyze files with text in them and perform all sorts of things with the extracted text but the part you should really keep in mind is working with data sets processing data is one of deep seeks strong suit with a few limitations to analyze a file you first have to upload it obviously then you type a prompt with instructions on what to do a good test of its capabilities would be asking for comparison of to files I will ask deep seek to check the files for patterns and summarize all findings into bullet points I will also mention the files as file a and file B this helps the AI to not get lost in all the data after which I will get a smart and concise response would be nice to get some visualizations with that but as of right now DPC can't directly create any sort of diagrams can write a python code that we then would have to paste into the program and get a graph that way this is one of the limitations to keep in mind however it can create tables just fine no limitations there the overall rules for working with files are the same as for working with text being detailed and concise dividing big tasks into smaller ones and so

on now I believe you already have the phone app installed so let me guide you through that starting with the interface overall design and layout is very similar to Chad GPT The Prompt in box the same two buttons for enabling Advanced reasoning and web access and a button to add files there it gives three options photo OCR image OCR and document the first one lets you take a photo in the moment the second one upload your own photo the third one self-explanatory the menu on the left has all your chats and the button in the top right corner creates a new chat if you click on your profile in the menu you'll go to settings and again all we can change is the app language and the theme as far as the functionality goes deep seeks mobile app can do all the same stuff the web version can analyze files compare them can extract text from photos and work on that No Object recognition though no vision you can write articles and do everything you can do on the web it's like what the Chad gbt app was a year

ago the time has come to install deep seek on your computer and it's surprisingly easy now we need to fight with terminal permissions or allocate terabytes of storage I will demonstrate in my Mac but the process will be identical for Windows as well I'm not sure about Linux but my guess is that it will be identical too to start running deep seek locally you'll first need to install all l on your device this app basically does all the work for you just download it and then you need to unzip the archive and install the app launch the app and click install once that's done you're pretty much settled you should see a llama icon in the status bar indicating that all Lama is running in the background then open Terminal and in the terminal window paste this text if you want to install other models here's a list of commands for you to use but remember about the hardware and storage requirements I mentioned earlier wait for the model to load and install and once you see the success message you can start prompting that's it you have deep seek running locally and since it runs locally you can even disconnect your computer from the internet and it will still work each message will have a thank port and the response that follows I'll admit terminal isn't the most convenient way but if you want to go the extra mile you could hook it up to some HTML interface or something like

that so you've got your model running locally and you can't wait to get to work sweet now I want to give you a couple prompts you can use as is each tailored for specific Niche you might be working in I will also explain how each prompt Works what else you can ask deep seek to do in your field and how to modify prompt for different

results content marketers often juggle multiple channels all to Keep Their audience engaged so proms have to reflect that my prom for you is this particular prompt follows all the prompt and rules gives Clear Directions outlines the audience explains what must be included and so on you can tweak it by adding a personality or providing an example of your past marketing materials this would also help create a stronger brand language eliminating some of the work you would have done otherwise thanks to this prompt and its possible variations with deep seeks ADV reasoning you can dive deeper into predicting future market trends where brainstorming puls that zero in on emerging consumer questions for maximum

engagement when it comes to bloggers the variety of possible prompts is infinite but my example prompt would sound something like this when it comes to prompts for writing always specify the length deep seek is great at adhering to these sorts of limitations then just like in my prompt give it something to think about I also suggest showing and deep seek the target audience just to make the language more tailored and don't forget about outlining the contents that's how you get good results for your blog

texts if you work in social media management listen carefully since you have to connect with your audience with every publication The Prompt has to focus on describing the audience and the context and outlining the copy itself of course sample prompt might be this prompt ensures AI has enough direction tone platform and content type what while leaving room for creativity if you want to refine it maybe add specific timelines like an exam session or reference previous engagement patterns deep seek also gives room for integrating its API as Chad bots so theoretically you can make it the pocket social media manager working

24/7 for copywriters prompts work in a similar way but with a few caveats writing a copy from a scratch can be done with specific prompts and to learn those I suggest you watch our Chad gbt guide so instead of purely writing proms I suggest you focus on refining your texts with deep seek like this prom balances preserv an essential info with making the text more accessible you can customize it by specifying the reading level where the style casual formal or somewhere in between to match your brand language Additionally you can ask deep seek to analyze readability scores propose alternative sentence structures or even highlight specific terms that might confuse you or in intended

audience okay this Niche may be a bit controversial but I feel like it deserves special attention soon many dialogues and games will be written with AI so here's my suggestion for a prompt to try this prompt gives narrative Direction character conflict a forbidden object and a quest at the heart of the story you could make it better by specifying the setting Stone where add in details about the characters backgrounds to make their motivations clear you can layer in additional storyline twists broaden character arcs or integrate subplots that emerge from the conversation ensuring your players stay invested for the Long Haul but remember about prompting tips from

object and a quest at the heart of the story you could make it better by specifying the setting Stone where add in details about the characters backgrounds to make their motivations clear you can layer in additional storyline twists broaden character arcs or integrate subplots that emerge from the conversation ensuring your players stay invested for the Long Haul but remember about prompting tips from earlier the simplest thing you can do with deep seek if you're a YouTuber is writing a script for a video this particular prompt this the main thing you'd have to do focus on the outline Because deep seeks own understanding of a script structure can be super different from the outline you might expect also prompting for YouTubers in my experience always relies on creativity and ideation it's not only about writing scripts for videos but also about coming up with ideas so be sure to ask for video ideas fixing video titles and so on we have a full video on using Ai and content production two videos to be exact so be sure to watch them next when it comes to consultant jobs they are all about reports corporate language spreadsheets data analysis Etc so I would suggest starting with something like this again it follows all the rules it's direct concise and full of guidelines I would also suggest upload an example of such a comparison if you have one this would make format and everything so much easier and don't hesitate to upload files and ask for reports based on that just try to keep sensitive information out of it maybe you'll have to slightly modify the files to get rid of sens of data but overall deep seek can become invaluable especially if you do what I showed you earlier and deploy deep seek

locally prompting for entrepreneurs is a strange thing since everything revolves around business picking a singular prompting approach is nearly impossible so instead I will focus on a specific thing project proposals this can be a pain so here's the prompt I'm offering be sure to paste the bullet points into the placeholder as for the prompt itself I trust you can decipher it by now if you need to tailor it further try provid an existence Style Guidelines where brand messaging notes so deepy can maintain consistency there are many more prompts you might want to use but that sounds like a topic for a full video should we make

one for you fellow data analysts I will keep this simple even though the nedge is quite complex analyzing files and data in deep seek works great thanks to the model being so lightweight and accurate and here I will advise no prompt you to deploy deep seek locally that will be the best way to work on your data sets especially in batches you saw how good deep seek is at analysis so here is a sample prompt for you to try and check out the results imagine the stuff you could do with a model running locally there's so much room for automation four journalists and writers

prompts work pretty much the same way they do for all other writers here is the example prompt to prove my point see you can still make it better though add examples of your writing so that deep SE could mimic your style look for sources yourself because search is still not working as of time of reording this aside from that just use our prompt and tips and you will be

golden if I was to rate deep seek as the Chad gbt competitor I'd say in reasoning it does pretty much 90% of what Chad gbt does and sometimes I even prefer deep seeks responses they somehow feel less AI like but the best thing about it is that you can run it locally this seems like the biggest flex and something you should do if your Hardware allows that what do you think of deep seek so far hop into geek Academy chats and tell us about your experience thanks for watching see you in the next one