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Reasoning Models

DeepSeek by DeepSeek (深度求紒)

Meet the Chinese AI lab whose open-weight models stunned the industry by matching frontier reasoning at a fraction of the cost. Learn to use DeepThink, prompt reasoning models effectively, self-host the open weights, and judge its limits fairly.

🎯 Intermediate ⏱ β‰ˆ2 hours πŸ“š 6 lessons πŸ“ 20-question exam πŸ† Pass mark 75% 4.6
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One payment of β‚±200.00 unlocks this course and all 10 others β€” plus every certificate. Lesson 1 below is a free preview.

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What you’ll learn

βœ“Explain who DeepSeek is and why its V3 and R1 models made headlines
βœ“Use the DeepSeek chat app, the DeepThink toggle, search and file uploads
βœ“Describe how reasoning models and Mixture-of-Experts architectures work
βœ“Prompt reasoning models with goals and constraints instead of step-by-step scripts
βœ“Understand open weights, distillation, self-hosting and the OpenAI-compatible API
βœ“Weigh privacy, data-residency and accuracy limits before trusting DeepSeek with real work

Course content

1 Who Is DeepSeek and Why Did It Shake the Market? Β· free preview A 2023 Chinese AI lab, spun from a quant fund, that made frontier-class models cheap and open. Β· 22 min read β†’ πŸ”’ Getting Started: The Chat App and DeepThink Using chat.deepseek.com, the free tier, and when to flip on DeepThink. Β· 20 min read πŸ”’ πŸ”’ Reasoning Models and Mixture-of-Experts, Simply What extended thinking changes, and how a committee of specialists keeps it cheap. Β· 26 min read πŸ”’ πŸ”’ Prompting a Reasoning Model Give goals, constraints and the whole problem β€” not step-by-step instructions. Β· 24 min read πŸ”’ πŸ”’ Open Weights, Distillation and Self-Hosting Download R1 for yourself, run distilled small models, or call the official API. Β· 26 min read πŸ”’ πŸ”’ Privacy, Restrictions and an Honest Comparison A sober look at data residency, content limits, hallucinations and fair rivals. Β· 22 min read πŸ”’ πŸ“ Final Exam β€” DeepSeek 20 questions Β· pass 15/20 (75%) Β· unlimited retakes Β· earns your signed certificate πŸ”’