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Comment by niteshpant

2 days ago

how can deepseek be so cheap* yet so effective?

*pricing: MODEL deepseek-chat deepseek-reasoner 1M INPUT TOKENS (CACHE HIT) $0.07 1M INPUT TOKENS (CACHE MISS) $0.56 1M OUTPUT TOKENS $1.68

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Alifatisk  2 days ago

I think it's because of a combination between the MoE model architecture and the inference done in large batches and run in parallel

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