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DeepSeek
Chinese lab punching above its weight on reasoning + code.
Best for
Budget-conscious API experiments, coding help, and seeing non-US frontier options.
Tip for students
Don’t pick a model because Twitter said so—rerun your own eval set on DeepSeek vs whatever you use now.
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What it is
DeepSeek is a China-based AI company whose models (chat + reasoners) showed up hard in student and builder conversations for quality-per-cost. Use the official site/API; respect your school’s data rules—same as any cloud model.
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deepseek · china · reasoning · code