DeepSeek
An AI assistant and family of models, including open-weight releases.
Best for
Developers, Technical questions, Running models yourself.
What to use it for
- Work through a hard problem
- Solve this step by step and show your reasoning.
- Build on open models
- Test an open-weight model on your own hardware.
Strengths
- Open-weight models give you more control
Limits
- Its hosted service may not suit sensitive work
Privacy
Check where the hosted service stores data before sharing anything private.