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DeepSeek, one of the newer competitors in the AI space, has been making waves recently.

However, in a rapidly changing space, there is no slowing down.

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There arent any new tricks or fancy toys, instead, this latest version focuses on core changes.

Mainly, this included significant improvements in both reasoning and coding abilities.

This means a more robust understanding of complex tasks and an improved ability to solve them.

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The most important change, however, is in the models ability to run efficiently.

These are immensely powerful systems, capable of handling huge amounts of data.

However these are, unsurprisingly, incredibly expensive to run.

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This update comes at the same time asGoogle Geminis 2.5 Proupdate.

This brought along similar upgrades to the Gemini AI model.

Unfortunately for DeepSeek, this latest version of Gemini makes improvements in all of the same areas as DEEPSEEK-V3-0324.

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