DeepSeek Price Hikes Prove Open Source Strategy Right
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-14
The commentator notes that DeepSeek's recent price hikes perfectly validate founder Liang Wenfeng's strategy that "open sourcing can't hurt my bottom line."
Despite community complaints about the increased prices, it reveals that no third-party provider can actually serve the model cheaper than DeepSeek itself, highlighting their underlying compute and engineering barriers.
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