Comment by cheema33
19 hours ago
> The hardware to run deepseek is still incredibly expensive.
Deepseek API pricing is very low compared to Anthropic/OpenAI API pricing.
For many, the 300% difference in pricing may be difficult to justify, if the quality difference is very small. And there will be many tasks where the most expensive/the best model, is not needed. Currently many people end up using Opus 4.7/GPT 5.5 for many tasks without thinking about it.
Is deepseek still on subsidized pricing though.
Near zero probability of that. The model is more efficient and the company who trained it did not blunder trillions of dollars to do so. China has better electricity infrastructure than the US too, so the likelihood they can scale out before the US ever could is high. Long term deepseek, Alibaba, etc hold the most cards for sustainable AI even despite the attempted Nvidia embargo
I am not shilling China, this is just what is happening right now.
Lol what? You seriously think that the #1 Chinese AI company is not being subsidized by the Chinese government?
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Judging by the multiple providers selling it for around the same price (including non-VC funded competitors): no, it isn't subsidized.
Is there somewhere I can look up whether a certain provider is VC-funded?
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