Everything You Need to Know About DeepSeek

This course teaches you about DeepSeek, the latest upgrade in DeepSeek’s reasoning model, and how it competes with OpenAI’s upcoming o3.

Intermediate

11 Lessons

Certificate of Completion

This course teaches you about DeepSeek, the latest upgrade in DeepSeek’s reasoning model, and how it competes with OpenAI’s upcoming o3.

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Course Overview

DeepSeek is stepping up to rival the biggest names in the AI industry with its latest reasoning model, R1. This course offers an in-depth exploration of DeepSeek’s architecture, reasoning capabilities, and real-world applications, comparing its performance against leading AI models like OpenAI’s o3. Through structured lessons, you’ll learn about the inner workings of DeepSeek V3, understand how reinforcement learning enhances chain-of-thought reasoning, and analyze AI performance metrics. You’ll also learn...Show More

TAKEAWAY SKILLS

Generative Ai

Large Language Models (llms)

What You'll Learn

An understanding of the structure and functionality of DeepSeek models, V3 and R1

Knowledge of how reinforcement learning enhances chain-of-thought reasoning

An understanding of the role and benefits of DeepSeek-R1’s distilled models for efficiency and performance

The ability to evaluate DeepSeek against OpenAI and other leading LLMs

Hands-on experience building a Hangman game using DeepSeek-R1 to solidify practical skills

What You'll Learn

An understanding of the structure and functionality of DeepSeek models, V3 and R1

Course Content

Welcome to the World of DeepSeek!

Explore open-source AI with DeepSeek, focusing on innovation, ethics, and real-world applications.

Your DeepSeek Journey Begins Here!

Introduction to DeepSeek

Discover and compare DeepSeek’s open-source AI models, architecture, and capabilities with other LLMs. Find out whether OpenAI o3 is better than DeepSeek-R1.

What Is DeepSeek?

Accessing DeepSeek Comparison of DeepSeek with Other AI Models Architecture of DeepSeek-V3 Architecture of DeepSeek-R1 Making Distilled Models from DeepSeek-R1 OpenAI o3 or DeepSeek-R1: Which Is the Better Reasoning Model?Build Hangman Application Using DeepSeek-R1

The Future of AI

Understand the significant limitations of DeepSeek models in reasoning, biases, and multimodal processing.

Limitations, Controversies, and Challenges DeepSeek: A Game Changer or Just Another Challenger?

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