# DeepSeek Chat & Reasoner Projects at AI Tinkerers

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> Technology record last updated: 2026-04-08T15:31:02Z
> Generated: 2026-09-21T19:43:45Z

A high-performance AI interface featuring the V3 chat model and the R1 reasoning engine for complex logic and coding.

DeepSeek Chat & Reasoner provides direct access to the R1 model, which uses large-scale reinforcement learning to excel at math, code, and logical deduction. The system employs a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture to maintain speed while rivaling top-tier benchmarks like OpenAI's o1. Users can toggle between the standard V3 model for fluid conversation and the Reasoner mode for transparent, chain-of-thought processing (visible via the 'thought' dropdown) to solve intricate technical problems.

- Official technology site: https://chat.deepseek.com
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Soul, Memory, Skills, Brain: Building a Zero-PII Personal AI Agent in Docker](https://austin.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_11W1r8whPMs)

Rent-An-Agent.AI is a self-hostable personal AI agent platform where each agent is a four-layer artifact — Soul (persona in SOUL.md), Memory (SQLite+FTS5 with daemon-thread fact extraction), Skills (52 marketplace skills exposed through an OpenAI-compatible bridge API), and Brain (user-configurable LLM: DeepSeek, Ollama, Claude). It runs on a Mac Mini in Austin, ships as Docker containers on GitHub, exposes itself via Cloudflare Tunnel, and uses a 48-character hex token as the only identity — no email, no password, no PII. Live demo: provision a fresh agent in 10 seconds with persona picker, have a conversation, show the daemon thread silently extracting facts into SQLite, rewrite the Soul mid-conversation („Luna, sei ab jetzt formeller"), fire a marketplace skill call through the Bridge, and settle a tier upgrade with a real BOLT11 Lightning invoice via the Alby webhook.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Austin: April 2026 Demo Night — 2026-04-16 — Austin
- Public talk page: https://austin.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_11W1r8whPMs

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