alt Hacker NewsYeah, the discounted deepseek inference is subsidized by the CCP for a reason, and it's one that might well come back to bite.
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benterix • today at 6:22 AM
Well, many people don't have very warm feelings for American LLM providers so they don't care. (Which matters because, at least anecdotally, they do care when buying a new car.)
sourcecodeplz • today at 8:45 AM
There is no evidence it is subsidized. Actually, there is evidence that (1) electricity is cheap in China & (2) deepseek is a very efficient model.
> deepseek inference is subsidized by the CCP
What is that claim based on?