DeepSeek is primarily the powerful language model R1, developed by a Chinese company. It is an open-source model considered a competitor to ChatGPT, distinguished by efficient training methods and the 'Mixture of Experts' approach.

How does the DeepSeek app differ from open-source models?

The DeepSeek app (cloud variant) is known as insecure and posing a data security risk. In contrast, the Open-Source models from DeepSeek offer full data security as they can be operated locally and do not require data transfer.

What is an Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture?

MoE models like DeepSeek utilize an architecture where only selected parts of the neural network – the so-called experts – are activated for each input. This enables efficient processing and reduces computational cost compared to traditional models.

What advantages do open-source AI models like DeepSeek offer?

Open-source models like DeepSeek can be run on affordable hardware, enabling local implementation. This improves result quality and saves costs, especially with intensive usage and avoids reliance on cloud services.

What is the role of the IT Club Mainz in the development and utilization of DeepSeek?

The IT Club offers AI consulting, tailored solutions for intelligent AI assistants, and training to support and promote the use of open-source AI models such as DeepSeek.

DeepSeek: The AI revolution from China also as a safe variant

DeepSeek is both insecure (the cloud app) and very secure (the open source model). In this focus paper on DeepSeek, which emerged from the AI expert group of the IT Klub Mainz/Germany, the background to DeepSeek, the app and the various DeepSeek models are discussed. First of all: every company can achieve more with open source AI than with ChatGPT.

What is DeepSeek?

With “DeepSeek”, the exceptional language model named R1 is primarily referred to, which was published by a Chinese company called “DeepSeek”. AI-language models are also referred to as LLMs, which stands for “Large Language Model”.

What is possible with a DeepSeek open source model is basically also possible with the powerful open source models of other providers (also from Europe).

With R1, DeepSeek was able to generate a language model that is as good as “ChatGPT”. DeepSeek stirred up attention, because their app broke all records in no time due to the quality of R1 and thus received maximum attention.

What makes DeepSeek so special?

Due to numerous outstanding features, DeepSeek has stirred up the AI market. The DeepSeek app became the most downloaded app in no time. Some of the reasons for its success:

High intelligence factor

DeepSeek models can have a very large number of neurons while requiring only a fraction of them per task. DeepSeek has also invented sophisticated training methods.

More efficient training and response behavior

Through selective activation of experts, the computational cost is significantly reduced compared to models whose neural network is always fully activated.

Lower costs

Through selective model architecture, the costs for operation are significantly lower than with models like ChatGPT from OpenAI.

Open source & secure

Everyone can become “OpenAI”: DeepSeek models are freely available and can be locally run. The local version comes without any data transfer. The following graph illustrates this:

The picture shows the basic principle of an open source model. It can simply be downloaded as a file and does not send any data anywhere. The image what created with AI support. (image was automatically translated).

Open source AI models can be implanted into AI systems by simply downloading a file. The model does not send any data anywhere. As an analogy, imagine a text file that cannot communicate with anything or anyone.