DeepSeek ships research artifacts, not products — explaining its eval gaps

teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-11

Long-time observer teortaxesTex argues the key to understanding DeepSeek is that, unlike other labs, it ships internal research artifacts rather than polished products, with a policy of basically not caring about users. That explains high internal evals, low external scores, brittleness, and weird capability gaps.

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