In early 2025, DeepSeek, an AI assistant developed by a Chinese startup, emerged to compete with ChatGPT, offering similar capabilities and even surpassing it in some aspects at a fraction of the cost.
The industry's attention on DeepSeek caused a significant drop in Nvidia's stock, indicating the impact of this new AI player.
DeepSeek aims to realize artificial general intelligence (AGI) while ChatGPT specializes in various tasks beyond its conversational abilities.
There are distinctions in training data timelines, with DeepSeek trained on more recent data compared to ChatGPT.
DeepSeek employs a mixture of experts (MoE) architecture, offering efficiency by using only relevant experts for queries, while ChatGPT uses a transformer model, ensuring consistency.
DeepSeek excels in technical tasks like math and problem-solving, while ChatGPT is stronger in contextual understanding and nuanced responses.
DeepSeek is currently free, contrasting ChatGPT's freemium model that limits requests before downgrading.
ChatGPT is user-friendly and more customizable, while DeepSeek requires more technical knowledge for customization.
ChatGPT tends to produce more conversational language, whereas DeepSeek leans towards technical content due to its specialized training data.
ChatGPT provides detailed coding assistance, helping users learn to code, while DeepSeek focuses on efficiency by making changes without detailed explanations.