DeepSeek
VerifiedTrendingFrontier reasoning, open weights, unbeatable price
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DeepSeek
What it is
DeepSeek shook the AI world by matching frontier reasoning performance with radically cheaper training and inference — then open-sourcing the weights. Its free chat app topped global app stores, its API undercuts every major lab, and R1's visible reasoning chains influenced the whole industry. Privacy-conscious users can even run distilled models locally.
Key features
- R1 reasoning with visible chains
- Free unlimited chat
- Open-source model weights
- Ultra-cheap API
What we liked
- + Frontier quality, free
- + Open weights option
- + Disruptive API pricing
Worth noting
- · China data-residency concerns
- · Feature set thinner than ChatGPT
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