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DeepSeek

DeepSeek is the AI assistant and model family from the DeepSeek AI research team, best known for DeepSeek-R1, its open reasoning model. You use it through the chat app at chat.deepseek.com and the DeepSeek mobile apps, or through the OpenAI-compatible API on the DeepSeek Platform. In chat, the DeepThink toggle switches on step-by-step reasoning for math, logic, coding, and research questions, and the vendor's homepage currently highlights its V4.1 Flash model update, API support for web search and fetch, and a Harness desktop app. What sets DeepSeek apart is that its headline models are open. DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-R1-Zero are published with model weights under the MIT License, with a 128K context length, alongside six smaller distilled models based on Qwen and Llama that teams can download and run themselves. The vendor's own model card reports R1 performing comparably to OpenAI o1 across math, code, and reasoning evaluations, and documents recommended settings for running the models locally with serving tools such as vLLM and SGLang. DeepSeek suits developers and technical teams who want a strong reasoning assistant they can also self-host or distill into smaller models, and everyday users who want a general chat assistant with an explicit deep reasoning mode. Because the same model family appears in the chat app, the API, and downloadable weights, moving between trying the assistant, integrating it, and self-hosting it stays inside one product line.

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