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Performance per dollar is in the ‘too good to be true’ territory, what’s the deal here?
by baq 2mo ago
Performance per dollar is in the ‘too good to be true’ territory, what’s the deal here?
- GaggiX 2mo ago>what’s the deal here? It's good.
- baq 2mo agoSo is Fable, I’m asking who is the customer if the thing is free
- ignoramous 2mo ago"The thing" isn't free [0]: It is cheap by US/EU income standards. > who is the customer If no one else, then definitely those that can only budget $1/mo to $5/mo. Probably 100s of millions, if not billions, of the Global South. [0] Free access to DeepSeek v4 Flash is indeed available from providers like OpenRouter, OpenCode, and Freebuff (to name a few), but no ZDR.
- baq 2mo agoI mean, if you're paying this little, you aren't the customer; the service is either subsidized by investor money (best option), the government (which makes it unfair competition at best) or profit is being realized elsewhere (where?)
- GaggiX 2mo agoThere are dozens of providers, the model is just really cheap to run thanks to its clever architecture that optimize the compute and memory usage even in long contexts.
- cherryteastain 2mo agoThis is China's way of applying its modus operandi of '80% the quality at 20% the price' to LLMs. Aim is dumping the tokens on the world market like they did with other industries like shipbuilding, steel etc.
- surgical_fire 2mo agoNitpicking, vut I use Claude at work and DeepSeek "at home". DS has a lot more than mere 80% of Claude's capability, and the price is a lot less than 20%.