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DeepSeek vs. ChatGPT: How Do They Compare?

Abstract:

The article comprehensively compares two leading AI chatbots, American ChatGPT and Chinese DeepSeek in terms of performance, cost, accuracy, privacy concerns, and applications.
The analysis reveals that ChatGPT excels at producing engaging and conversational content and generating multiple approaches to a problem. It also highlights DeepSeek’s cost-effectiveness, impressive capabilities in technical tasks, as well as its open-source approach, which enables people to understand or extensively customize the underlying technology. It also recommends two models depending on different needs of users, and suggest that ChatGPT would be a more appropriate option for privacy-conscious users.

Author:
Vinod Chugani
Year:
2025
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MIT Political Science
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