💬 Exa & Deepseek R1 Chat App

Powered by Exa - The Web Search API

Try the tool: https://demo.exa.ai/deepseekchat

🎯 What is Exa & Deepseek Chat App?

Exa & Deepseek Chat App is a free and open-source chat app that uses Exa's API for web search and Deepseek R1 LLM for reasoning.

This app provides a cool and simple chat experience which you can clone and build upon.

💻 Tech Stack

• Search Engine: Exa API - Web search API
• Language Model: Deepseek R1 via Fireworks AI
• Frontend: Next.js with App Router, TailwindCSS, TypeScript
• AI Integration: Vercel AI SDK
• Hosting: Vercel

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js
• Exa API key
• Fireworks AI API key (For Deepseek R1)

Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/exa-labs/exa-deepseek-chat.git
cd exa-deepseek-chat

2. Install dependencies

npm install

3. Set up environment variables (for Exa and Fireworks)

4. Run the development server

npm run dev

5. Open http://localhost:3000/deepseekchat in your browser

🔑 API Keys & Environment Setup

Required API Keys

• Exa API Key: Get from Exa Dashboard
• Deepseek API Key (From Fireworks AI): Get from your Fireworks Dashboard

⭐ About Exa

This project is powered by Exa.ai, a web search API designed specifically for AI applications. Exa provides:

• Quickly finds up-to-date information from the web
• Improves the accuracy of answers by real-time web search
• Uses high reasoning LLM to provide accurate answers

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Built with ❤️ by the Exa team