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dcchambersyesterday at 6:23 PM3 repliesview on HN

This latest DeepSeek is almost at the "too cheap to meter" level. That's going to be a larger unlock than models like Fable/Mythos that are way too expensive to justify, IMO.

What secret sauce do they have?


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esttoday at 1:01 AM

> What secret sauce do they have?

Quant company usually squeezing every penny.

throwaway_95283yesterday at 6:44 PM

limited resources, no modern GPUs, no $10 billion dev budgets.

pair it with codewhale, 50 agents, 200 MB of ram.

pamayesterday at 7:59 PM

No secrets—all published. Very efficient attention. Excellent kernels. Great caching subsystem. Small and well trained model.