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Happy Hoosier

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3. DeepSeek is interesting, but nots a game-changer technology-wise

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2025, 01:07 PM

Jan 28

It's value is in "distilling" a model from its larger, more capable counterparts. It's not a full capability model. It trains using the larger models and distills those models down to a subset which gets you MOST of the performance at a much lower cost of entry,

If ChatGPT is the Mercedes of GenAI, DeepSeek is the Volkswagen. Or as I suggested in another place earlier, DeepSeek is Temu ChatGPT. In a large number of use cases, the Volkswagen will work just fine.

DeepSeek will be more likely to hallucinate, or just be plain ole wrong.

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