alt Hacker NewsBut this assumes Chinese models will not achieve token cost optimization. Intelligence needs are fairly flat for many tasks, and the Chinese models have caught up on this front. Next they achieve greater token cost efficiency and we don’t need OpenAI.
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VulgarExigency • today at 12:17 AM
The model that is most optimized around token cost is, in fact, Chinese. DeepSeek is astoundingly cheap by default, but if you use it from Reasonix (the harness optimized around its cache), it becomes even cheaper.
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That the author doesn't acknowledge the relentless R&D efforts DeepSeek has been plowing into optimization, and giving a default win to OpenAI/Anthropic on the supposition that they've been serving models for longer is a black mark against the article.
I appreciate the transparency in explicitly stating their motivation for writing the article (a response to what the author saw as an overreaction to Chinese models), but I feel the article goes too far the other direction, with multiple unsupported leaps of logic, and overstating the stickiness of AI client products.