January 2025

# January 1

Hello to DeepSeek V3 🐳 Despite being trained using significantly less resources, benchmark tests showed it outperformed Llama 3.1 while matching GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Sometimes, however, it may say it's ChatGPT though.

Thanks @huy (Pro) for suggesting the model 🙇

# January 2

Typeface is now a choice ✍️ In addition to iA Writer, AskBox now has Lato, Inter, and an option to use your familiar system typeface.

Thanks @huy (Pro) for suggesting the feature 🙇

# January 27

DeepSeek R1 in the house 🐳 This is the new, super-cost-effective reasoning model from China, that is on par with OpenAI's o1 and making the news headlines recently.

We also promoted DeepSeek into our "Explore" section, which contains the top model of each developer. For fairness, they are sorted by their names.

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A poor man's router

What I say vs what I do

It's 2025

# January 30

Companion prompt just has a complete revamp 💫 We now have a dedicated panel where you can manage your companion's prompts, create new ones with guides, or choose from a library of curated prompts.

Thanks @hai for the suggestion from a long time ago, and @huy for taking part in our building of this most recently 🙇

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