DeepSeek on Huawei Ascend Beats OpenAI in Inference Profitability
DeepSeek achieves higher inference profitability on V4 Flash using Huawei Ascend chips than OpenAI does with Nvidia Blackwell. This is driven by their industry-leading KV cache offload system and top-tier low-level operator engineering, despite OpenAI's larger model size.
2026-08-01 ~ 2026-08-01 · 2 related posts
- Episode 1: DeepSeek-V4-Flash Architecture Leaked with Million-Token Context(2026-07-31, 3 posts)
- Episode 2: Unsloth Releases Quantized DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 for Local Deployment(2026-07-31, 6 posts)
- Episode 3: DeepSeek on Huawei Ascend Beats OpenAI in Inference Profitability(2026-08-01, 2 posts)
- Episode 4: DeepSeek-V4-Flash Excels in Frontend Coding with Unmatched Cost-Performance(2026-08-01, 3 posts)
- Episode 5: DeepSeek V4 Preview: Flash to Introduce Four-Level Reasoning Effort(2026-08-01, 2 posts)
- Episode 6: DeepSeek Drastically Reduces Training Compute Costs Across Models(2026-08-01, 2 posts)
- Episode 7: DeepSeek V4-Flash API Public Beta Launches with Major Agent Upgrades(2026-08-01, 5 posts)
- Episode 8: DeepSeek V4-Flash Costs 105x Less, But Stability and Benchmark Overfitting Questioned(2026-08-01, 17 posts)
- Episode 9: DeepSeek V4 Flash Sparks a Wave of Local Deployment Tests(2026-08-01, 26 posts)
- Episode 10: DeepSeek V4 Flash Quantization Tests Show Major Speed Gains Without Quality Loss(2026-08-04, 2 posts)
- Episode 11: Single RTX 5090 Runs DeepSeek 1M Context(2026-08-04, 2 posts)
- Episode 12: DeepSeek-V4-Flash Tops Cost-Efficiency with Ultra-Low Running Costs(2026-08-05, 4 posts)
- Episode 13: DeepSeek V4 Flash Benchmarks Leak, Outperforming Pro(2026-08-05, 3 posts)
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- Episode 15: DeepSeek V4 Flash Passes 22 Coding Tests on Dual DGX Spark Cluster(2026-08-10, 2 posts)
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