To me there are a few structural and fundamental reasons why deepseek can never outperform other models by a wide margin. On par maybe--as we reach the diminishing returns with our investment in the models, but not win by a wide margin.
1. The US trade war with china which will place deepseek compute availability at disadvantages, eventually, if we ever get to that.
2. China censorship which limits the deepseek data ingestion and output, to some degree.
3. Most importantly, deepseek is open source, which means that the other models are free to copy whatever secret source it has, eg: Whatever architecture that purportedly use less compute can easily be copied.
I've been using Gemini, chatgpt, deepseek and Claudie on regular basis. Deepseek is neither better or worse than others. But this says more about my own limited usage of LLM rather than the usefulness of the models.
I want to know exactly what makes everyone thinks that deepseek totally owns the LLM space? Do I miss anything?
PS: I am a Malaysian Chinese, so I am certainly not "a westerner who is jealous and fearful of the rise of China"