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by TeMPOraL 495 days ago
You can access DeepSeek R1? For me, both chat and API have been down for over a week now (it shut down minutes after I topped up my account and generated an API key - I never got to use it :/).

There's lots of fiddling with these models. I found Claude 3.5 Sonnet to be superior to both GPT-4o and o1-preview in around 99% of the things I do; I only started comparing it against o3-mini, and right now it's a mixed bag. Then again, I tend to develop and refine specific prompts for Sonnet, which I haven't for o1-preview and o3-mini, so that could be a factor. Etc.
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TuxSH 495 days ago
> You can access DeepSeek R1?

Yes, well, I live in the EU and thus can avoid US work hours and Chinese peak hours. I think availability has been a bit better since they disabled websearch (also I noticed DSR1 half a week before it made the mainstream news).

> There's lots of fiddling with these models.

Agreed

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TeMPOraL 495 days ago
I live in the EU too. For me, the status page[0] shows a continuous API outage for the past 8 days, that is still ongoing. Since it started, my API requests bounce back with an error, which changes seemingly at random between "unauthorized" and "insufficient balance". Neither of those reasons are valid, since I'm using a valid API key I made after creating an account, which I topped up with $20 (and have an invoice from them to prove it). I must have had a mightily bad luck that the service went down soon after I generated the API key - I'm guessing my user/key is currently stuck in the middle of some migration, or possibly wasn't captured in a backup and got subsequently wiped. For now, I'll just patiently wait for them to fix their service.

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[0] - https://status.deepseek.com/

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TuxSH 495 days ago
AFAIK it's hosted on Chutes for free too (though limited to between 2k and 10k output tokens). Azure as well, though it might be ratelimited there (or at least it is through openrouter)
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