Hi there, this is Sagnik J. from AI MONKY and in this article I will explain DeepSeek in details and I will answer mostly all answer asked on Internet about the AI chatbot and this will be a one shot article to get a clear cut picture about DeepSeek and the all hype behind it.

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What is DeepSeek AI?

As now people are knowing about DeepSeek, the first thing came to their mind is what is DeepSeek? It is basically a AI powered chatbot that is owned by Beijing DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd which was founded back in by Liang Wenfeng, the founding CEO of DeepSeek.

It works on advancing artificial intelligence (AI) technology and particularly in the field of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Whoever don’t know – AGI refers to AI systems that can think, learn, and perform tasks like humans, rather than being limited to specific tasks (like current AI, which is often specialized for things like image recognition or language translation).

In simple words, DeepSeek is basically a similar AI chatbot like ChatGPT that is able to do various works on it’s own using AI.

How to Use DeepSeek?

As I have said earlier, DeepSeek is basically an alternative of ChatGPT. So, the use cases of the ai chatbot is somewhere similar to ChatGPT. The below are the given steps to use DeepSeek effectively.

Visit the official website of DeepSeek.
Access APIs or Platforms.
Do Signup on the website.
Now you can use it to do your desired work by simple give it a prompt. You can use it for mostly all AI related work like for data analysis, generating code, articles, building chatbot for customer service etc.

DeepSeek Models & Pricing :

The below are the DeepSeek models and it’s pricing. You can read the full details here.

Model	Context Length	Max CoT Tokens	Max Output Tokens	1M Tokens Input Price (Cache Hit)	1M Tokens Input Price (Cache Miss)	1M Tokens Output Price
DeepSeek-Chat	64K	–	8K	$0.014	$0.14	$0.28
DeepSeek-Reasoner	64K	32K	8K	$0.14	$0.55	$2.19

Is DeepSeek Better than ChatGPT?

Recently when DeepSeek was getting the sudden hype, I was surfing on X and got various users showing DeepSeek’s superiority over ChatGPT. Even one X user showed with same prompt DeepSeek works better.

Now I can’t tell about the pro versions of these two AI chatbots. But I think two of these chatbots have their pro and cons. While with the free version of DeepSeek, you can’t generate image or do extra curricular things apart from texting, even it couldn’t even read picture, or uploaded documents, that free version of ChatGPT easily does.

But on ChatGPT you can’t upload any very lengthy code or message, it probably has some text length limit that DeepSeek doesn’t have. Besides sometime I also feel DeepSeek works better than ChatGPT. So, it depends on your use cases.

Why is All the Hype?

There are several reasons behind DeepSeek’s sudden popularity. But the main reason is its new AI model, DeepSeek-R1, is performing exceptionally well, almost matching the performance of OpenAI’s top model. What’s even more impressive is that it’s much more affordable. For example, using DeepSeek-R1’s API costs significantly less than its competitors, making it an attractive option for developers.

How ChatGPT Sees DeepSeek?

Overall ChatGPT generally does answer what we look for and here also it does the same. When asking about DeepSeek, it gives an overall idea of it. But sometimes it shows some drawbacks about it including privacy concerns etc. It might just be a part of it’s answer. But it was unusual, so I thought to write about it.

FAQs :

The below are the frequently asked questions about DeepSeek on Internet.

Who is the founder of DeepSeek?

As of the details available online, Liang Wenfeng is the founding CEO of DeepSeek.

Is DeepSeek Safe?

DeepSeek is generally considered safe but as it’s a Chinese origin application, they might collect your personal informations. As I’m searching on Internet and got many many countries have restricted using it in government organizations.

Texas, USA: Governor Greg Abbott has banned DeepSeek from all government-issued devices, citing security concerns over potential data exposure to the Chinese Communist Party. Read here.
Australia: The Australian government has prohibited DeepSeek from all government systems and devices, highlighting national security risks. Read here.
Taiwan: Taiwan has officially banned the use of DeepSeek’s AI services by all government departments due to security concerns. Read here.
Europe: Organizations such as the Belgian data protection agency have received complaints about DeepSeek, potentially leading to investigations. Read here.

How to buy DeepSeek stock?

As of now, DeepSeek is a privately held company and its shares are not available for public purchase. Do keep your eye on our blog, we will publish an update whenever there would any news about the listing of DeepSeek in any stock exchange.