タグ: DeepSeek

OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026, and DeepSeek countered with V4 Pro and V4 Flash the very next day. The two flagships now sit a few benchmark points apart on coding and reasoning, but the cost gap is enormous: DeepSeek V4 Flash output tokens cost $0.28 per million versus GPT-5.5 at $30, more than 100 times cheaper. That single number reshapes the entire DeepSeek vs ChatGPT debate. This guide compares the current 2026 flagships head to head across performance, pricing, features, privacy, and real-world use cases. You’ll see the canonical benchmark numbers, monthly cost scenarios at different scales, the privacy and censorship reality of each platform, and a clear […]

Baidu released ERNIE 5.1 on May 8, 2026, hitting #4 on LMArena Search using only 6% of normal pre-training cost. We cover benchmarks, architecture, agentic performance, and how it compares to DeepSeek V4 Pro, Claude Opus 4.6, and Gemini 3.1 Pro.

DeepSeek pricing in 2026 spans five tiers: a free web chat at chat.deepseek.com, the flagship DeepSeek V4 Flash API at $0.14/$0.28 per million tokens, DeepSeek V4 Pro at $0.435/$0.87 per million tokens during the 75%-off launch promo (extended through May 31, 2026), the regular V4 Pro rate of $1.74/$3.48 per million tokens after the promo ends, and a free API grant of 5 million tokens for every new developer account. All V4 models ship with a native 1 million token context window at no extra charge, making DeepSeek roughly 35 to 100 times cheaper per token than GPT-5.5 or Claude Opus 4.7. This guide covers every part of DeepSeek pricing […]

DeepSeek released V4-Pro and V4-Flash on April 24, 2026, open-source MoE models with 1M context, new CSA/HCA hybrid attention, and benchmarks rivaling GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6. Full breakdown of architecture, benchmarks, pricing, and comparisons.

PewDiePie’s AI model scored 39% on the Aider Polyglot benchmark, outperforming GPT-4o (23.1%) and Gemini 2.0 Pro Exp (35.6%) on a coding test widely used in AI research. The retired YouTube star Felix Kjellberg spent months building a $41,000 home GPU rig, reading machine learning papers, and grinding through failed training runs to get there. He published the full journey in a video released on February 26, 2026. This is not PewDiePie casually asking ChatGPT to write code. He built a 10-GPU workstation, scraped GitHub for training data, generated synthetic datasets using the DeepSeek API, and fine-tuned Qwen 32B, a 32-billion-parameter open-source model. The result is a genuine AI fine-tuning […]

DeepSeek R1-0528 is a 685 billion-parameter open-source model under an MIT license, adding deeper chain-of-thought reasoning, native JSON outputs, and low-latency inference compared to its predecessors. How you phrase your prompt determines how much of that power you actually use. A vague request gives a generic answer; a well-structured prompt gives you exactly what you need. This guide covers 30 prompt hacks for DeepSeek, organized by use case: general tasks, writing, sales, resume building, content creation, education, and prompt chaining. Each section includes concrete examples you can adapt immediately, plus strategies for connecting prompts into multi-step workflows. If you’re new to DeepSeek, it’s also worth reading whether DeepSeek is safe […]

Choosing the right AI tool in 2026 feels like trying to hit a moving target. New models arrive every few weeks, and what worked best in January might already be outdated today. This guide cuts through the hype to show you exactly which tools are winning right now based on a combination of public preference leaderboards, published benchmarks, and hands-on workflow testing prompts. These picks combine human-preference leaderboards lmarena.ai, vendor-published benchmark highlights, and practical workflow prompts. “#1” varies by task; use the use-case row that matches your job. You can Try Fello AI to compare these models side-by-side in a single app. In this update, we address the following questions: […]

Most people think AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or DeepSeek only know what you tell them. But that’s not the full story. From just a few messages, AI can build a surprisingly accurate profile of you — your personality, habits, even your fears. And sometimes, it doesn’t even need your permission to start putting the pieces together. In this article, we’ll show you how it works, what AI can actually figure out about you, and what you can do to stay in control. And if you’re brave enough, we’ll even show you some prompts that reveal what your favorite AI might already know about you — even if […]

In past months, most AI headlines have focused on bigger models (like recently released GPT-5.2, Gemini 3 or Claude Opus 4.5), higher GPU counts, and flashy demos. Now a Chinese AI startup is quietly pushing a different narrative: better results with smarter architecture. DeepSeek is preparing to release DeepSeek V4, a new flagship AI model focused almost entirely on coding and reasoning. It’s expected to launch in mid-February 2026, likely around Lunar New Year. A key reason the DeepSeek V4 rumors feel more credible this week is a brand-new DeepSeek research paper published on January 12, 2026: “Conditional Memory via Scalable Lookup“. It describes Engram, a “memory add-on” that lets an AI quickly look up facts and code […]

TL;DR: In January 2026, there isn’t one “best” AI for everything. On LMArena’s Text leaderboard, Gemini 3 Pro leads user-preference rankings, while the updated Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.0 reports GPT-5.2 (with extended reasoning) as the top overall benchmark performer. Choose based on your task: Gemini for daily assistance, Claude for coding, and GPT-5.2 for complex reasoning. Best AI of January 2026 — Quick Picks (ranked by use case) Use case #1 pick (model) Primary signal (ranking) Corroboration (2nd signal) Last updated (primary) Why it wins Best overall (preference) Gemini 3 Pro LMArena Text #1 Also ranks in the top tier (Top 3) of Artificial Analysis’s v4.0 competitive benchmark set […]