Hype around DeepSeek is kinda crazy

This is just ridiculous at this point. First of all, next week, o3-mini, which is smarter than o1, is coming to the free tier. Second, ChatGPT is multimodal and has an infinitely better user experience. It has every QoL feature you could possibly think of—too many to name—none of which are in DeepSeek.

The average person on the ChatGPT free tier doesn’t really care that R1 is smarter than GPT-4o because GPT-4o has advanced voice mode, image uploads, dictation, read-aloud, custom instructions, memory, a pretty search feature that can display helpful graphics and embeds directly inside ChatGPT, canvas to collaborate easier, target replies, GPTs, GPT mentions, and so many more. OpenAI is not cooked people neither is Google DeepSeek is not gonna release AGI next week.

If anything, people should be glazing over Google because Gemini-1206 inside the AI Studio is arguably smarter than R1 in many ways. It’s a non-thinking model, it has 2.1M tokens of context, and search censorship controls. Really, DeepSeek is cool, and I use it plenty, but god, the hype is just kind of unbelievable.