Article: https://proton.me/blog/deepseek
Calls it “Deepsneak”, failing to make it clear that the reason people love Deepseek is that you can download and it run it securely on any of your own private devices or servers - unlike most of the competing SOTA AIs.
I can’t speak for Proton, but the last couple weeks are showing some very clear biases coming out.
Have you compared it with the regular qwen? It was sissy very good
The main difference is speed and memory usage. Qwen is a full-sized, high-parameter model while qwen-distill is a smaller model created using knowledge distillation to mimic qwen’s outputs. If you have the resources to run qwen fast then I’d just go with that.