These prices will skyrocket eventually. AI companies need more money.

RAM prices will also probably stay very high as long as AI companis act in such a parasitic manner.

The deepseek philosophy has always been to make a small profit or not do it at all.

I suspect they have spent months building caching infrastructure and designing intelligent fetch algorithms to get down to this number.

Or... CCP gave them a big pile of money to run this as a front for an intelligence operation. Honestly, who knows.