DeepSeek is amazing, they are, from a cost/benefit literally an order of magnitude or more better than the 'SOTA' models, and yet no one really talks about them.
I'm using them for my micro-saas, and they have made my niche economically profitable where as SOTA models are only slightly better for massively increased expense. Its truly impressive.
Word of advice to anyone, not all your use of LLM tech needs to be code/dev work related.
We are entering 'Web 4.0 era' or whatever you want to call it. Massive transformations of nearly every single business will and are being developed as the cost of intelligence as a commodity is falling through the floor...