alt Hacker NewsDeepseek V4 (not flash) trippled in price too by the way (from Deepseek). Get used to this pattern.
This is what you get for relying on the generosity of billionaires. Keep offshoring your thinking ability to a machine and let me know how competitive you. Hint, you wont be. There's nothing special about being able to use an LLM.
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Unlike other providers, Deepseek does promise that they will lower the price when their Huawei cards arrive in a few more months.
Anyone can host Deepseek V4 on rented GPUs and sell inference on it. Price will very quickly converge to the marginal cost of inference. This is as close to a pure commodity as it gets in the AI space so competitive market economics will put in work. Same is true for any open-weights model.
Mate why are you so mad at people upset the price trippeled? It's a fair complaint that people built services using the cheaper ones with the expectation future models would be similarly priced. You can avoid 'offloading thinking' while still building ontop of these models
V4-Pro is about 2.4× total params and 1.3× active params of V3.2.
You're typing as your handwriting and letter sending abilities deteriorate to dust. Writing down information as your memory capacity decays. Remembering instead of living at the pure leading edge of perception dulling your reactions.
Smh, it's all downhill from the first unadulterated neuron.
I think demand is too great and compute is not enough. Nothing to do with billionaires colluding to increase prices by 3x.
Actually, deepseek v4 was 1/3 promotional price for the first month or so. This was pretty clearly communicated. The promotions window just ended is all.