The Deepseek Ai Chatbot, launched by a Chinese startup, has temporarily overthrown Openai’s Chatgpt from the first place in the Apple North -American Application Store.
The application is completely free to use, and Deepseek’s R1 Model is powerful enough to be comparable to the Openai’s “reasoning” model except Deepseeek’s Chatbot, not hijacked behind a $ 20 payment a month as Openai’s. Also, Deepseek’s model was efficiently formed with less powerful Ai chips, which makes it a point of reference for innovative engineering.
I have tried a lot of generation tools for the last two years, so I was curious to see how Deepseek compares to the Chatgpt app already on my smartphone. After a few hours of using it, my initial impressions are that Deepseeek’s R1 model will be a major disorder for AI-based companies in the United States, but still suffers from the common weaknesses to other generative tools, Like rampatient hallucinations, invasive moderation and scrapped material, especially.
How to access Deepseek’s Chatbot
Users interested in trying Deepseek can access the R1 model through Chinese startup smartphone applications (Android, Apple), as well as on the company’s desktop website. You can also use the model through third -party services such as Perplexity Pro. In the app or on the website, click on the Deepthink (R1) Button to use the best model. Developers who want to experiment with API can consult this online platform. It is also possible to download a Deepseeek model to run locally on your computer.
To use all consumer functions, you must create a user account that keeps your chats track. “We store the information we collect on safe servers located in the People’s Chinese Republic,” says the company’s privacy policy. Check this article from the Wired Safety Table to get a more detailed breakdown on what Deepseek does with the data it collects. It is worth noting that, just as Chatgpt and other North -American Chatbots, you must always avoid sharing highly personal data or sensitive information during your interactions with a generative tool.
Is it basically Freegpt?
Yes and no! If you are looking for a free Chatbot to use, Chatgpt already includes many free features. So does Claude, Google’s Gemini and the Meta Ai tool. So why is Deepseek free? This is the gross power of the model that is generating these free answers for now. As mentioned above, Deepseeek Mimics Openis’s latest O1 model, without the subscription fee of $ 20 per month for the basic version and $ 200 a month for the most capable model. This is an important blow to tryingii to monetize Chatgpt through subscriptions.
Another feature that is similar to Chatgpt is the option of sending the Chatbot to the web to collect links that report their answers. Deepseek has no dealings with publishers to use their content content; Openai does it, included with the Wired Matrix company, Condé Nast. But web search outings were decent and the bonds collected by the boat were generally useful.
However, Deepseek’s current application has no tools that Chatgpt users may be used to, such as the memory function reminiscent of past conversations, so it is not always repeated. Deepseek also has nothing close to Chatgpt’s advanced voice mode, which allows you to have voice conversations with Chatbot, although the startup works in more multimodal capabilities.
A breakthrough in research but still inaccurate
Although it may almost seem unfair to hit Deepseeek’s chat for common problems at the AI startups, it is worth living in as a breakthrough in model training efficiency not even approaching Solve the lock of hallucinations, where a chat only does the answers to the directions. Many of the outings I generated included blatant falsehoods, confidently. For example, when I asked R1 what I already knew the model of me without searching the website, the Bot was convinced that I am a long -time technology journalist in The Virgin. Without shade, but it is not true!
