However, the consensus is that DeepSeek is superior to ChatGPT for more technical tasks. If you use AI chatbots for logical reasoning, coding, or mathematical equations, you might want to try DeepSeek because you might find its outputs better.

With DeepSeek R1 matching ChatGPT o1, the o3 release seems inevitable, but that’s because OpenAI already set it that way.

In theory, any AI alternative that consumes fewer resources should be better for the environment. Yet when Salon reached out to experts about the potential promise in DeepSeek’s potential “Sputnik” moment (to quote billionaire software developer Marc Andreessen), they expressed cautious optimism.