| ▲ | odie5533 3 hours ago | |
Inference is cheap. I bet the financials of these Chinese companies are much saner looking than any of the big US AI companies which are bloated by investors. | ||
| ▲ | raincole 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
DeepSeek is very likely selling tokens at a loss. There're many cloud providers that provide you with DeepSeek V4 Pro via API, and those services at least twice as expensive as DeepSeek itself. | ||
| ▲ | surgical_fire 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I see no evidence anywhere that "inference is cheap". To my knowledge this is a myth being spread to pretend ChatGPT or Claude will one day make any economic sense. DeepSeek likely operates at a loss. How big the loss is anyone's guess. Meanwhile I am happy using their model. It is really good, to a point I forget I am not using Codex or Claude. | ||