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What LLM to use?

Introduction

It's been a few years since I started using large language models (LLMs) in the form of chat agents such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek. So far, they've been very helpful for me in so many areas. Mostly in building softwares, but they are too global in scope that their training are so helpful to so many people and so many subjects.

AI Chats

So far, I have these three in the list:

  1. ChatGPT
  2. Gemini
  3. DeepSeek
The longest I've used among these is ChatGPT. I've seen the best of its usefulness, and some of it's weaknesses. I have also tried the two more recently and have considered replacing the first one. However, instead of replacing, why not use them all and then compare the result? And that is exactly what I did.

ChatGPT

The first and the longest AI chat I knew in existence is ChatGPT. From the company OpenAI, they have released numerous versions as of this date of their GPT or Generative Pre-trained Transformer which refers to a family of models that OpenAI developed, popular for their advanced natural language processing capabilities. This is the capability of computer to understand our statements in english, allowing them to converse with human or human statements.

Advantages

  1. One of the advantages of this is it's age in the arena. It's been longer than any competitors, giving the creators of ChatGPT more learning from previous usages in developing newer and newer models. This is advantageous to the users because it will definitely improve the applications that they will be using.
  2. Aside from texts, users can also upload images or files if you are subscribed to their paid models. As of this writing, the GPT 3.5 is the free version they gave, so the latest models come with a fee or subscription plans.
  3. Another advantage is that there is a mobile app available so mobile users can access the app faster.

Disadvantages

  1. One of the disadvantage of ChatGPT is, in order to use a more advanced model, you have to have subscription. As of this writing, you need a GPT plus subscription which costs $20.00. 

Gemini

After sometime of the release of ChatGPT, Google announces their own large language model called Gemini. It's purpose is to compete with ChatGPT. And since almost all of us knows Google, it is a hope that more users will be using this tool rather than the above. However, it was never anticipated that being earlier of ChatGPT has taken its advantage.

Advantages

  1. The same with ChatGPT, Gemini can also analyze uploaded images without a paid subscription.
  2. As of this writing, for the free use of Gemini, we can already use 2.0 Flash model and 2.0 Flash thinking model with 1 million token window.
  3. The mobile app co-pilot is a great way to converse with AI much like you are talking with a person with a large set of data stored on its mind.

Disadvantages

  1. Before Gemini, Google introduces Bard, its AI conversational service and on the day of its demo, it produces an inaccurate information about the Webb Telescope. However, this has been long addressed by a series of evolution of the model and transforming it into now Gemini.

DeepSeek

As opposed to the two big players mentioned above, in terms of budget spent in the development, DeepSeek has the smallest cost in both development and training. With their own benchmarking, the results shows promise of competitive results on various subjects.

Advantages

  1. Based on the benchmark released by the company, they are exceeding in performance in the subject of coding. So if you want help with this area, you can try to give it a shot.

Disadvantages

  1. As of the time of this writing, deepseek experiences some server performance issues rendering it to respond slower than the 2 above. Not knowing when will this issue be addressed, this is the main bottleneck of the AI service. However, after a few seconds, the interface will still show the result and is still comparable with the results from the other 2 mentioned above.

Conclusion

Based on the experiences shown above, you have now a glimpse of what these AI services can do. Since today, we are now surrounded by things operated with the help of machine learning or what others might call AI. With these powerful tools, they can absolutely make our life better in so many things, however, with this power, we should also be very careful in its usage. Not everything they spits out are true, they are still based, in the simplest form, on a fitting of a curve, or predicting what will be the answer. Also there are issues about AI hallucinations where some services invents somethings that are not real. So we should be careful with these things and always carry out with the best of our judgement.

Thank you for reading! I hope you come back for more posts similar to these!

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