Just a few days ago, nobody had heard of Deepseek. However, this artificial intelligence tool has completely revolutionized the sector, has shaken the large technological companies, has stable the stability of the New York stock market and has half the world with your eyes on it.
It was created in 2023, but the latest version has been launched on Monday Depseek, along with the Depseek R1 open source conversational language model, which has become one of the main rivals to Chatgpt.
In fact, it is supposed to even exceed capabilities and have another series of advantages, such as the fact that it is totally free. However, there are also those who distrust him since it is a Chinese development.
It was created almost by chance, and to create it “only 2,000 chips” were used, while 10,000 GPUs of the company were needed for Openai models. In addition, to create Depsek only 6,000 million dollars have been invested, something like 95% less than what Chatgpt to OpenAI cost. In addition, it is cheaper to use and contaminate less.
How Deepseek works
The Deepseck R1 conversational language model, in the eyes of the user, has a functioning similar to any other chatbot. You just have to enter your website through the URL chat.deepseek.com and register with an email account, Google or a telephone number with prefix +86 to start using it. It is not necessary to pay subscription, since it is a completely free tool.
Includes a question – developing your own prompt, the text command that you will use to request what you want – in the text box and you will get an accurate answer. You can even ask or request that you expand information on some certain aspect.
The only “but” in this regard is that, being developed by a Chinese company – and therefore, collaborating with the Chinese government to what is bound by law – may be asked questions regarding controversial issues in the country – such as censorship or repression – offers vague and inaccurate responses.
In any case, it should be noted that Depseek has been trained with conversational models of its own competitors, including Chatgpt or the open source call models of Meta and Google Gemini. As published by the developer, its LLM has come to overcome the OpenAI reasoning model in advanced programming tasks and mathematics, as well as in postgraduate level science or in general knowledge.
The fact that Deepseek R1 is an open source AI implies that anyone can modify it and program on it to develop their own applications, climbing the use of AI and democratizing their abilities. This is something that also applies in the case of the Meta call models, but not on Google Gemini and OpenAi, which are closed. Anyway, Google does have a generation of open source models called Gemma.
A “low cost” and low price
As mentioned, using Depseek is something that can be done totally free through its website. However, if you want to go further, you can access your API to integrate it with other types of web tools and applications.
This is much cheaper than using the API of other artificial intelligences such as Openai, and that is why it has meant a real market revolution. For example, using a million tokens from the Depseek API costs only 0.14 cents, while the same amount of inputs, using OPENAI’s O1 model, would cost $ 7.50.
This low cost is what is causing millions of developers worldwide to have decided to use the AI of Deepseek for the development of their applications instead of those of other competitors.
In addition to having needed much less investment than other conversationals for its creation, its maintenance is also much cheaper. While ChatgPT spends $ 700,000 a day in maintenance of servers, which translates into losses of about 500 million annually, it is estimated that Depseek only needs 90% of that amount to stay active per day.
In this context, the Depseek app has been placed in the number of downloads in the Apple App Store App Store, detonating precisely Chatgpt. The efficiency of costs that Deepseek R1 has even worried the newly released United States government, who sees how the country’s hegemony in the AI field is also threatened by its main competitor in the technological field: China.