DeepSeek's Low-Priced API Profitability Driven by Ultra-Small Model

DeepSeek's ability to offer low-priced APIs profitably stems from its highly compact model architecture, which achieves up to 40 times the single-chip throughput of Anthropic's Opus.

2026-08-02 ~ 2026-08-03 · 2 related posts

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