Not impressed with deepseek—AITA?

Am I the only one? I don’t understand the hype. I found deep seek R1 to be markedly inferior to all of the us based models—Claude sonnet, o1, Gemini 1206.

Its writing is awkward and unusable. It clearly does perform CoT but the output isn’t great.

I’m sure this post will result in a bunch of Astroturf bots telling me I’m wrong, I agree with everyone else something is fishy about the hype for sure, and honestly, I’m not that impressed.

EDIT: This is the best article I have found on the subject. (https://thatstocksguy.substack.com/p/a-few-thoughts-on-deepseek)