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DeepSeek AI might be smarter than OpenAIs smartest AI, and you can try it out now
Important: DeepSeek R1 is open source.
This made it very capable in certain tasks, but as DeepSeek itself puts it, Zero had "poor readability and language mixing." Second, it's free to use as a web app, while API access is very cheap($0.14 for one million input tokens, compared to OpenAI's$7.5 for its most powerful reasoning model, o1). To test it out, I immediately threw it into deep waters, asking it to code a fairly complex web app which needed to parse publicly available data, and create a dynamic website with travel and weather information for tourists.
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