alt Hacker NewsThere is no way I'm believing DeepSeek can charge less than $1 USD for their pro model while Opus costs over 25x more, yet their price is less than the cost of running it?
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re-thc • last Tuesday at 8:06 PM
> There is no way I'm believing DeepSeek can charge less
Why not? Hetzner charges WAY less than AWS too. Can you not believe that?
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It would seem strange, if they were operating in the same economy, but they don't. DeepSeek operates in an economy with a high degree of central planning.
China subsidizes strategic industries, and they have heavily done so with AI. And DeepSeek specifically has said they have no commercialization plans.
For example: https://www.boc.cn/aboutboc/bi1/202501/t20250123_25254674.ht...