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Calm down: DeepSeek-R1 is great, but ChatGPT’s product advantage is far from over
For now, ChatGPT remains the better-rounded and more capable product, offering a suite of features that DeepSeek simply cannot match.
It seems pretty clear-cut to say that without GPT-4o to provide this data, and without OpenAI’s own release of the first commercial reasoning model o1 back in September 2024, which created the category, DeepSeek-R1 would almost certainly not exist. While DeepSeek-R1 has impressed with its visible “chain of thought” reasoning — a kind of stream of consciousness wherein the model displays text as it analyzes the user’s prompt and seeks to answer it — and efficiency in text- and math-based workflows, it lacks several features that make ChatGPT a more robust and versatile tool today. Integrating image generation, vision analysis, and voice capabilities requires substantial development resources and, ironically, many of the same high-performance GPUs that investors are now undervaluing.
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