What is DeepSeek AI? Introducing ChatGPT’s Powerful and Free Competitor

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DeepSeek AI is a growing Chinese startup that has gained global attention for its advances in artificial intelligence. The Chinese company has released what many experts believe is one of the most powerful free AI models, called DeepSeek. We will introduce it in the rest of this article from Orcacore.

What is DeepSeek AI?

The latest version of the company’s AI model, DeepSeek V3, was released in late 2024. Developers can download and use it in their own applications. As we mentioned, DeepSeek models are completely open source; developers can download them and modify them for use in their own applications and projects.

1 What is DeepSeek AI
DeepSeek AI

This AI model uses an innovative architecture, which we will discuss below. This architecture makes it more powerful than many of today’s powerful AI models from companies like Meta and OpenAI, which require you to pay to use their advanced features.

DeepSeek V3 AI Capabilities and Its Superiority Over Competitors

DeepSeek says its flagship model can handle a wide range of text-based tasks, such as coding, translation, and writing articles and emails. It is also trained on Nvidia’s China-specific H800 GPUs.

DeepSeek announced in its tests that DeepSeek V3 outperforms both free and downloadable models and non-free models that are only available through APIs.

According to the company and according to the table below, its AI model outperformed other models in coding, such as Meta’s Llama 3.1, OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and Alibaba’s Qwen 2.5 72B.

Benchmark (Metric)DeepSeek v3DeepSeek v2.5Qwen 2.5Llama 3.1Claude-3.5GPT-40
Architecture
# Activated Params
# Total Params
MoE
37B
671B
MoE
21B
236B
Dense
72B
72B
Dense
405B
405B




EnglishMMLU (EM)
MMLU-Redux (EM)
MMLU-Pro (EM)
Drop (3-shot F1)
iF-Eval (Prompt Strict)
GPQA-Diamond (Pass@1)
SimpleQA (Correct)
FRAMES (Acc.)
LongBench v2 (Acc.)
88.5
89.1
75.9
91.6
86.1
59.1
24.9
73.3
48.7
80.6
80.3
66.2
87.8
80.6
41.3
10.2
65.4
35.4
85.3
85.6
71.6
76.7
84.1
49.0
9.1
69.8
39.4
88.6
86.2
73.3
88.7
86.0
51.1
17.1
70.0
36.1
88.3
88.9
78.0
88.3
86.5
65.0
28.4
72.5
41.0
87.2
88.0
72.6
83.7
84.3
49.9
38.2
80.5
48.1
CodeHumanEval-Mul (Pass@1)
LiveCodeBench (Pass@1-COT)
LiveCodeBench (Pass@1)
Codeforces (Percentile)
SWE Verified (Resolved)
Aider-Edit (Acc.)
Aider-Polyglot (Acc.)
82.6
40.5
37.6
51.6
42.0
79.7
49.6
77.4
29.2
28.4
35.6
22.6
71.6
18.2
77.3
31.1
28.7
24.8
23.8
65.4
7.6
77.2
28.4
30.1
25.3
24.5
63.9
5.8
81.7
36.3
32.6
20.3
50.8
84.2
45.3
80.5
33.4
34.2
23.6
38.8
72.9
16.0
MathAIME 2024 (Pass@1)
MATH-500 (EM)
CNMO 2024 (Pass@1)
39.2
90.2
43.2
16.7
74.7
10.8
23.3
80.0
15.9
23.3
73.8
6.8
16.0
78.3
13.1
9.3
74.6
10.8
ChineseCLUEWSC (EM)
C-Eval (EM)
C-SimpleQA (Correct)
90.9
86.5
64.1
90.4
79.5
54.1
91.4
86.1
48.4
84.7
61.5
50.4
85.4
76.7
51.3
87.9
76.0
59.3

DeepSeek claims that DeepSeek V3 was trained on a dataset of 14.8 trillion tokens. To put this into perspective, each million tokens is equivalent to about 750,000 words.

DeepSeek V3 is also very large in size, supporting 671 billion parameters (parameters are internal variables that models use to make predictions or decisions). This makes the company’s AI roughly 1.6 times larger than Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B, which supports 405 billion parameters.

Another interesting point is that the Chinese trained their flagship model in just 2 months and at a cost of nearly $5.58 million; so compared to large companies like Meta and OpenAI, the company has spent less time and resources on its AI model.

Innovative Architecture of DeepSeek V3

DeepSeek AI has used an optimized architecture (called a mix-of-experts or MoE) to develop its model. This reduces its need for extensive computing power and powerful hardware. Think of this architecture as a team of specialized AI systems, where each so-called “expert” has its own neural network and is activated to perform tasks related to it.

2 Innovative Architecture of DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek AI

In fact, this architecture predicts the complexity of tasks before performing them. In other words, based on the resources at its disposal, (experts) determine the path required to achieve it. Also, only the most relevant AI systems will be activated to perform each task, which minimizes additional calculations and increases the speed of model performance.

DeepSeek AI Testing

Here are a few examples to test how DeepSeek AI works. In the first case, the model was asked to write a detailed description of a fantasy character (a queen who resists an evil empire). Then, DeepSeek V3 selected the name, title, age, and appearance of this fantasy fictional character and wrote:

3 DeepSeek AI Testing

To test the model’s coding skills, it was given a faulty JavaScript code, as shown in the example below. As you can see in the image below, DeepSeek immediately noticed the problem, explained it, and sent the corrected code to the user:

4 DeepSeek AI Testing

In the following example, DeepSeek V3’s productivity capabilities are tested. In it, the user asked the AI ​​to create a brief agenda for a meeting about a new product launch. The AI ​​then provided the user with a list of suggested topics that could be covered in the meeting, along with the planned time for each:

5 DeepSeek AI Testing

DeepSeek AI is said to be able to handle a wide range of tasks, such as writing and debugging complex code, with ease. It can also adjust its tone and style based on different topics. But DeepSeek, like many other AI models, can provide incorrect information in response to very specific topics. DeepSeek V3 also appears to be reluctant to provide answers on sensitive historical topics.

How to Access DeepSeek V3 AI?

You can now use the web version of China’s flagship AI DeepSeek V3 for free.

6 How to Access DeepSeek V3 AI

Of course, to use it, you need an account, which can also be created through a Google account. The user interface of this service is very similar to ChatGPT, and you can chat with it after logging in to your account.

In addition to the web version, the DeepSeek AI app is currently available for Android and iOS.

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