DeepSeek Beats OpenAI in Inference Margins via SOTA KV Cache Optimization
basedjensen · x · 2026-08-01
Despite OpenAI's Luna model being significantly larger, DeepSeek achieves higher inference margins on V4 Flash compared to OpenAI using Blackwells for Luna 5.6. This advantage is attributed to DeepSeek's state-of-the-art KV cache offload system and highly optimized kernel engineering.
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