Deepseek's new model is smarter and cheaper but still hallucinates

Tom's Hardware reports Deepseek's latest model is smarter and cheaper to run, using only one-quarter of the HBM and one-eighth of the SSD storage. The trade-off: it still battles hallucinations in agentic workloads.

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