DeepSeek is the latest large language model to burst onto the scene and shake things up, so much so that it’s wiped billions off the net worth of the world’s biggest tech companies. What has really caught everyone’s attention is how DeepSeek R1 displays its reasoning, or what counts for reasoning in an LLM. Naturally, I wanted to test it out and see if it could be a full-time replacement for the assistant on my CoPilot Plus PC.
Now, Microsoft’s assistant has become a fair bit smarter since I replaced CoPilot with ChatGPT a while back, but with DeepSeek making waves, I want to have quicker access to the hottest tool in town. Not to mention, the slightly more open nature of DeepSeek allows me to host a large language model locally as well, really stressing the AI capabilities of these new PCs. It’s time to remap that CoPilot key once again. Of course, if you want to try out DeepSeek on your Android phone, there’s an app for that too.