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Amanda Caswell

Meta AI vs. DeepSeek: I gave them 5 real-world tasks and the gap was embarrassing

AI Madness 2026 bracket graphic showing the matchups.

We've had a pretty exciting week of AI Madness. First, ChatGPT beat Perplexity, then Gemini won in the faceoff against Alexa+ and just yesterday Claude took the crown against Grok.

Now, in this round of AI Madness, we’re putting two very different contenders head-to-head: Meta and Deepseek.

On paper, both can handle everyday tasks, explain the news and help you think through problems. But in practice, they feel very different — and that’s exactly what we wanted to test.

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