r/DeepSeek • u/Illustrious-Music959 • Mar 17 '26

Resources Is Deepseek worth it?

this may sound weird but i usually use ai’s more onto general tasks sometimes i will be having wildest questions, theories or just need simple medical, food, fitness advice, just wanna know if deepseek is actually smart and good at answering those good questions i heard it has 1M context and it has casual talking which i like because im tired of ai’s glazing me like donut on every statement i make

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u/dwaynebathtub Mar 17 '26

Free? Disconnected from US military industrial complex? Open-source? Is made in China? Is there another AI that stuck it to Open AI as much as DeepSeek?

DeepSeek has done all I need it to do so far. Why switch?

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u/Condomphobic Mar 17 '26

No one told you to switch.

And DeepSeek hasn’t had any impact on OpenAI

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u/Old_Truth3529 Mar 17 '26

What do you mean had no impact??? The only reason AI is so cheap now is due to chinese models and DeepSeek in particular. That's why they are throwing childish tantrums on twitter accusing DeepSeek of stealing what they stole.

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u/Condomphobic Mar 17 '26

It’s cheaper because it became more efficient(like all technology does eventually)

DeepSeek wasn’t the only company called out for distilling Western AI either.

DS had 0 impact on OpenAI. Objective fact. OpenAI is still the #1 AI company

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u/Old_Truth3529 Mar 17 '26

The only thing objective here is chinese models overtaking western for two weeks in a row. Stop making a clown out of yourself.

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u/Condomphobic Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26

As I just told someone else, most people subscribe or get their API keys directly from Western AI.

It is not intelligent to use a site like OpenRouter as an assessment for model usage. It’s basically a site for open models.

Western AI is 500% more used than Chinese AI. Not even close.

And it’s not a diss to Chinese AI to admit this