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Re: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

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post #186

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What quantization level is that? Because official endpoints are slow .

From opencode go $10/mo plan I get between 60 t/s and 100 token/s even with large contexts of 150k+ tokens. I wouldn't call 80 t/s slow.

You are right, relatively to other llm providers this is not slow. But if you think what is possible when you have 1000t/s a sec you might find it slow.

Re: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

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post #162

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If what you're saying is true and accurate, then US-based AI labs are in big trouble. The only saving grace might be some sort of a 'national security' proclamation banning the use of state-of-the-art Chinese (and non-US) models across US federal and state governments and large enterprises (especially ones with federal government contracts), but even still, US AI labs will probably lose out massively on international…

I think you're overlooking the fact that for long-horizon tasks, even small errors compound over time and can lead to catastrophic outcomes. For simple queries, we have reached the threshold since the beginning of the year, and models are good enough from every provider to make a meaningful difference between one another. (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, MuseSpark, Kimi, DeepSeek, GLM...) The real unlock will be, and…

> these compounding errors that accumulate in dumber models

While SOTAs handle these errors better, they compound in all models and there's a term for that. It starts with cluster and ends with an expletive.

I wish I could, but I don't see the need for human steering going away soon if the task involves anything novel (see Terry Tao's chat).

Re: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

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post #15

I've been using it extensively since the release and the best summary I can give is that it's good enough to use it for (almost) everything and cheap enough that the cost are irrelevant. I'm running it in Oh My Pi with a second instance running as "advisor" and even with 5-6 active sessions (effectively 12 streams) I'm struggling to spend more than 5 bucks per day. OpenCode Go even has double limits temporarily so fo…

But DeepSeek now has a warning they’re going to sharply increase their API pricing sometime in the future.

But the model is open weight?

Re: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

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post #162

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If what you're saying is true and accurate, then US-based AI labs are in big trouble. The only saving grace might be some sort of a 'national security' proclamation banning the use of state-of-the-art Chinese (and non-US) models across US federal and state governments and large enterprises (especially ones with federal government contracts), but even still, US AI labs will probably lose out massively on international…

I think you're overlooking the fact that for long-horizon tasks, even small errors compound over time and can lead to catastrophic outcomes. For simple queries, we have reached the threshold since the beginning of the year, and models are good enough from every provider to make a meaningful difference between one another. (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, MuseSpark, Kimi, DeepSeek, GLM...) The real unlock will be, and…

These are not 24 hours of inference with floating point errors accumulating; largely the system guards against errors compounding. Tool failures, compile failures, test failures, etc, push back against the model taking a wrong turn and force it to correct.

Yes it's much easier to have a smarter model that goes straight to the correct answer first, but it may not be necessary or economical. There's a minimum bar for the model where it understands problems and knows the right step to correct them, and above that newer models give diminishing returns.

Re: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

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post #151

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not at all true. if you're truly using it across the board for smaller things (translation of pages, filtering of every individual tweet based on its relevance to you etc), the costs ramp up super quickly. i used for work where i did less and it quickly reaches thousands if you're not careful. i can already see what some will say: skill issue et cetera - whatever.

$100-200/mo is the subscription price. You aren’t going to go over. And you can select smaller models as well. Not everything has to be done by the most expensive one.

You just get throttled, which interrupts your whole workflow.

Re: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

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I've been using it extensively since the release and the best summary I can give is that it's good enough to use it for (almost) everything and cheap enough that the cost are irrelevant. I'm running it in Oh My Pi with a second instance running as "advisor" and even with 5-6 active sessions (effectively 12 streams) I'm struggling to spend more than 5 bucks per day. OpenCode Go even has double limits temporarily so fo…

my experience is the same, but deepseek is planning on increasing prices soon, which will make it a lot less attractive

Re: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

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These are very interesting results, and honestly hard to believe, even as a big 0731 fan.

If I'm reading the chart correctly, a couple observations:

* deepseek-v4-flash-0731 max is better than kimi-k3 max

* glm-5.2 is dumber than a box of rocks (this must be on low reasoning or something, right?)

This is way more extreme than other results I'm seeing, like those from Artificial Analysis.

Re: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

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I've been using it extensively since the release and the best summary I can give is that it's good enough to use it for (almost) everything and cheap enough that the cost are irrelevant. I'm running it in Oh My Pi with a second instance running as "advisor" and even with 5-6 active sessions (effectively 12 streams) I'm struggling to spend more than 5 bucks per day. OpenCode Go even has double limits temporarily so fo…

Agreed. With less than $10 on the DeepSeek API used, I’m somewhere near half a billion tokens over the past week or however long it’s been since it came out.

I’ve found it to be very capable. I’m using it with pi as well and some custom extensions I’ve put together over the past few months and it’s pretty crazy having it do what I need it to a vast majority of the time, do it fast, and see that it’s used like $0.12.

Re: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

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post #118

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How is $5/day irrelevant? In the $150/mo range you can get effectively unlimited usage of GPT 5.6 Sol (Pro plan). Why use a much weaker model for the same price?

Others have said similar but I disagree, I'm spending $200/m and I can easily burn through my weekly quota with a few overnight goals using 5.6 medium.

Same here with Claude Opus on 20x Max plan. Easy to burn through with 3-5 parallel sessions, each with their own subs going.

Then, once I go over, API pricing racks up FAST!

Re: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

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post #45

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As someone who recently tried it on some blackwell cards, it's possible to match the prices especially the input can be even cheaper and output can match the costs so you can easily build a net 20-30% margin business even at current GPU prices. The entire issue is caching, I tried to write some custom to dump to disk kv-caching using some ideas from their papers and my experience with snapshots and vm checkpoint syst…

Mild info dump, since this has a few too many upvotes and some folks might be misunderstanding, 20-30% is assuming a typical agentic workload where input tokens dominate by over 20:1 or at least 10:1, if you are output token heavy then this is going to be a different ball game. And there is no way in hell anyone can afford caching prices same as what DeepSeek is offering, and DeepSeek keeps the cache available for an…

From what I understand about deepseek’s pricing, they are only charging what they need to break even.
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