A few days ago we were hearing about how the "free lunch is over", now we're seeing discounts and increased usage limits.
We're subsidized by the Chinese government!
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/deepseek-nears-45...
DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May
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#12Is anyone concerned about these services and China’s National Intelligence Law?
Eh, I'd be more concerned about the Three-Letters and the One country that dropped an A-bomb.
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#13Re: DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May
#14Is anyone concerned about these services and China’s National Intelligence Law?
No because China can only do so much to me as someone who doesn't live there and never will.
It's the same reason why I prefer vpns that are owned by countries outside my own.
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#15Re: DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May
#16Is anyone concerned about these services and China’s National Intelligence Law?
I mean I can't believe I have to say this explicitly but it should be assumed that any data you send to China can and will be used against our interest by the CCP...
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
* from Chinese labs
What advantage do you think they have?
I’m not happy with their privacy policy [1]. I’m unfamiliar with the phrase “Parties with Other Legal Rights”. Given the well-documented struggles of Anthropic and others to provide enough compute, I wonder if “Parties with Other Legal Rights” constitutes part of the advantage here.
[1]: https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-privacy-pol...
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#18A few days ago we were hearing about how the "free lunch is over", now we're seeing discounts and increased usage limits.
This is clearly a well-timed loss-leading strategic market share grab! Anthropic have blown a lot of user trust in the last couple of months.. But, overall, the current AI pricing is completely unsustainable, across all AI companies, except via the exponential growth they are relying on. Dylan Patel did the most insightful analysis of this I've come across.. https://youtu.be/mDG_Hx3BSUE?si=nyJu4adwYCH1igbJ
Really feel like the current versions are for sure "good enough". Thats not how market capture is gonna function though and they are gonna keep pushing because the only moat is to stay ahead, so the problems gonna stay strange. at some point more compute isn't a reasonable answer, and optimization is, and my feeling is we are well past that point from a product perspective, but ipos etc etc
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#19A few days ago we were hearing about how the "free lunch is over", now we're seeing discounts and increased usage limits.
We're subsidized by the Chinese government! https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/deepseek-nears-45...
Cool go download qwen 3.6 and run it on a single GPU and you can avoid paying into a subsidized model
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#20A few days ago we were hearing about how the "free lunch is over", now we're seeing discounts and increased usage limits.
I can't figure out how there's both too little supply (so a dramatic need for more data centers) but also too little demand (so labs subsidize inference).