It looks like Alibaba's Qwen 2.5-Max has for now, triumphed over Deepseek Version 3 in terms of superior coding, reasoning, and human-like responses.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Alibaba+vs.+DeepSeek&oq=Alibaba+vs.+DeepSeek&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCTE4ODBqMGoxNagCCLACAQ&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
What are we to make of all of this?
In my humble opinion, it would be nice if things slowed down for a few weeks, but that doesn't look like it's going to happen. :-)