Comment by baq 5 hours ago Performance per dollar is in the ‘too good to be true’ territory, what’s the deal here? 6 comments baq Reply cherryteastain 4 hours ago This is China's way of applying its modus operandi of '80% the quality at 20% the price' to LLMs. Aim is dumping the tokens on the world market like they did with other industries like shipbuilding, steel etc. GaggiX 5 hours ago >what’s the deal here?It's good. baq 5 hours ago So is Fable, I’m asking who is the customer if the thing is free ignoramous 4 hours ago "The thing" isn't free [0]: It is cheap by US/EU income standards.> who is the customerIf no one else, then definitely those that can only budget $1/mo to $5/mo. Probably 100s of millions, if not billions, of the Global South.[0] Free access to DeepSeek v4 Flash is indeed available from providers like OpenRouter, OpenCode, and Freebuff (to name a few), but no ZDR. 2 replies →
cherryteastain 4 hours ago This is China's way of applying its modus operandi of '80% the quality at 20% the price' to LLMs. Aim is dumping the tokens on the world market like they did with other industries like shipbuilding, steel etc.
GaggiX 5 hours ago >what’s the deal here?It's good. baq 5 hours ago So is Fable, I’m asking who is the customer if the thing is free ignoramous 4 hours ago "The thing" isn't free [0]: It is cheap by US/EU income standards.> who is the customerIf no one else, then definitely those that can only budget $1/mo to $5/mo. Probably 100s of millions, if not billions, of the Global South.[0] Free access to DeepSeek v4 Flash is indeed available from providers like OpenRouter, OpenCode, and Freebuff (to name a few), but no ZDR. 2 replies →
baq 5 hours ago So is Fable, I’m asking who is the customer if the thing is free ignoramous 4 hours ago "The thing" isn't free [0]: It is cheap by US/EU income standards.> who is the customerIf no one else, then definitely those that can only budget $1/mo to $5/mo. Probably 100s of millions, if not billions, of the Global South.[0] Free access to DeepSeek v4 Flash is indeed available from providers like OpenRouter, OpenCode, and Freebuff (to name a few), but no ZDR. 2 replies →
ignoramous 4 hours ago "The thing" isn't free [0]: It is cheap by US/EU income standards.> who is the customerIf no one else, then definitely those that can only budget $1/mo to $5/mo. Probably 100s of millions, if not billions, of the Global South.[0] Free access to DeepSeek v4 Flash is indeed available from providers like OpenRouter, OpenCode, and Freebuff (to name a few), but no ZDR. 2 replies →
This is China's way of applying its modus operandi of '80% the quality at 20% the price' to LLMs. Aim is dumping the tokens on the world market like they did with other industries like shipbuilding, steel etc.
>what’s the deal here?
It's good.
So is Fable, I’m asking who is the customer if the thing is free
"The thing" isn't free [0]: It is cheap by US/EU income standards.
> who is the customer
If no one else, then definitely those that can only budget $1/mo to $5/mo. Probably 100s of millions, if not billions, of the Global South.
[0] Free access to DeepSeek v4 Flash is indeed available from providers like OpenRouter, OpenCode, and Freebuff (to name a few), but no ZDR.
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