About DeepSeek
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI lab whose open-source large language models, including the DeepSeek-V3 chat model and the DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model, deliver quality competitive with leading proprietary models at significantly lower cost. It offers a free web chat assistant and low-priced API access, and its open weights let developers self-host. DeepSeek is popular with developers and cost-conscious teams looking for a capable ChatGPT and Gemini alternative.
What is DeepSeek?
DeepSeek is a free and open-source collection of large language models which offer two main models – DeepSeek Chat and DeepSeek Coder. These models can either be accessed on the official DeepSeek website or run locally with the model checkpoint files (you can find these on Hugging Face). The website offers an easy way to interact and chat to the AI, similar to other chatbots such as ChatGPT and Bard. For questions relating to coding, DeepSeek Coder will be able to provide much better responses than the standard chat.