# Stop Asking 'Fable Or DeepSeek'—Start Asking How Your AI System Is Designed

> Source: <https://www.machinebrief.com/news/stop-asking-fable-or-deepseekstart-asking-how-your-ai-system-th5p>
> Published: 2026-09-17 12:00:00+00:00

# Stop Asking 'Fable Or DeepSeek'—Start Asking How Your AI System Is Designed

By Son Nguyen, Forbes Councils MemberSource: 

[Forbes Innovation](https://www.forbes.com/innovation/)
The difference is rarely in the 

[LLM](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/llm); it's in the system built around it.
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