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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Grok … which is the best AI assistant? We put them to the test

A sonnet produced by DeepSeek on a screen
DeepSeek’s Shakespearean sonnet about how AI might affect humanity. The chatbot also displayed a chain of thought process, talking the reader through the structure. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

ChatGPT and its owners must have hoped it was a hallucination.

But DeepSeek is very real.

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