Fernando: Cursor serves DeepSeek via Fireworks API, avoiding China-hosted servers
Ray Fernando · DeepSeek R1 - Everything you need to know · Jan 29, 2025 · at 5:50
Former Apple engineer Ray Fernando explains how third-party developer tools host DeepSeek models to avoid sending user data to Chinese servers.
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“One of my favorite apps for coding is actually Cursor. And I asked them, hey, where do you have your DeepSeq model hosted? And they told me they use the Fireworks API. And that's, you know, actually not in China. So that's great. So it's like, okay, cool. That's awesome. And they're using the full model.”
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