Assistant

DeepSeek

DeepSeek's consumer chat app. It reached the top of app-store charts in January 2025 after the release of the R1 reasoning model, offering reasoning comparable to paid assistants at no cost.

Purpose

Free general-purpose chat assistant from DeepSeek, built on its open-weight V3 and R1 models.

Capabilities

ChatStep-by-step reasoning (DeepThink)File readingCoding help

Underlying models