tried deepseek, not impressed mainly because it's hard to set up and although their AI chat is free, it has a T&C that you need to agree on where they'd collect your data for training purpose and probably for other things.
but since grok comes out with its reasoning model as well as deep search I didn't really use deepseek anymore, also claude just come up with reasoning model in version 3.7
pretty much deepseek already outdated after just few months, the AI scene is crazy.
in my opinion, such overblown news that deepseek burst the US tech bubbles, meanwhile reasoning models require a lot more compute than ever before and that means US company like NVIDIA just getting higher potential to produce more powerful GPU to appease the AI market.
Any app will collect user data for certain purposes, not just deepseek or apps from China, and depending on the app, there will be different levels of data collection. Most of them will be clearly stated in the terms and conditions, and what's more interesting about deepseek is that it's open source. That means if you suspect an app is collecting more of your data than they say, you can verify it yourself. Unlike closed source apps, we don't know what data they are collecting from us.
I also tried Grok which is built into X and I like it better than any other AI.
Instead of thinking it was created to burst the US tech bubble, why don't we look at the positive side? It brings innovation in cost savings in the field of AI development, creates a competitive environment and gives users more choices.