DeepSeek, the new Chinese AI chatbot, has had a major effect on the AI landscape (and the stock market) thanks to how efficient it is, and the fact it's open source. However, as someone who cares more about PC gaming and how the AI can work for me, I decide to test it only way I knew how, by testing its PC building advice.
I thought it apt to compare whatever a free user would get with both chatbots. That's DeepSeek R1 and ChatGPT 4o/4o mini. Though for the record, ChatGPT has a new and improved o1 model in the works, which DeepSeek claims comparative performance to, it's just not available yet. As well as this, DeepSeek's R1 model requires an internet connection and needs to be activated, so many first-time users will actually be using the older model.
