What makes it notable
DeepSeek emphasizes reasoning, coding, efficient inference and model releases developers can evaluate under their applicable licenses.
- Competitive reasoning and coding
- Mixture-of-Experts architecture
- Hosted and local options
Where it fits
It can suit alternative AI assistance, application development or local deployment. The best choice depends on the task.
Important tradeoffs
Outputs can be wrong or biased. Data handling and licenses differ across the official service, third-party hosts and local deployments.
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Is DeepSeek free?
Some access and releases may be free, while APIs, hosting and computing can cost money.
Is it open source?
Some weights are available under stated licenses. Review the license for the exact release.