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There is no way Deepseek is making money even on inference

• arczyx 3mo ago
  Pretty sure they are making money since on OpenRouter, there are other providers for DeepSeek V4 flash that are charging even less than DeepSeek themselves (eg DeepInfra and Digital Ocean). https://openrouter.ai/compare/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash/tencent/hy3-preview/google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite https://openrouter.ai/compare/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash/ten...
  • culi 3mo ago
    That doesn't mean they're making money. Other providers could just be doing it more efficiently. DeepSeek is trying to make its model optimized for Hauwei chips instead of NVIDIA so it has its own constraints
  • georgeburdell 3mo ago
    That says little. Those providers could also be losing money trying to gain marketshare. There is a high amount of speculation in the space and it won’t be apparent for awhile who has a lasting business.
  • georgeburdell 2mo ago
    And here we go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192693 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192693