DeepSeek - the free, open source “ChatGPT killer”

Loads of news stories about DeepSeek here in the last few days, no surprise as it’s been making headlines across the world! Currently a huge story on social media too.

Anyone tried it? What do you think?

Here’s a good explanation:

And here are some everyday people talking about it on social media:

Along with a few more controversial ones:

Curious to hear what you all think :smiley:

Another good summary:

And this has to be the funniest thing I’ve see all year (contains some swearing!):

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A couple more…

US journalist’s viewpoint:

DeepSeek vs ChatGPT:

I agree with what he’s saying about how DeepSeek talks you through things and makes it easier for you to learn from your interaction with it.

A post was split to a new topic: DeepSeek (671B) running on a cluster of 8 Mac Mini Pros with 64GB Ram each

It represents a groundbreaking advancement in the field of LLMs However, privacy and security on Deepseek remain a hidden concern.

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I tried to use it in place of a different LLM we were using, but using the same prompt. And it seems to give a different output. Not sure if it needs to prompted differently?

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If you run it locally there should be no security concern, some of the distilled models can run on regular laptops.

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